Borneo - Pt 2 (1937)

[Music] this long arm of the river this meandering crouton has taken up to another odd curiosity borneo streams and rivers salt marshes inland extensions of the cen brackish estuaries are spawning grounds for strange freaks of natural life like oysters growing on trees the natives collect the shellfish as if gathering fruit by lopping off limbs crusted with oysters they don't actually grow on the trees with the rise and fall of floodwater and tight branches are submerged at high water and the bivalves cling to them doesn't be Mike to a sunken rock when the water recedes they're left high and dry out on the limb they don't spoil they live and flourish Nature has adapted these oysters to a tree growing life that right professor little air yes ah I never hear the fries and oysters being so attached to each other but that proves nothing lots of things you don't like it spills but they grow on you I have spoken well on the half-shell they're about the same as an American oyster only a bit larger and justice tasty in Borneo they gather their seafood courses from the tree that's really plausible but this is the first time I ever see the noise term that a handle dollars I thank you [Music] via the winding rivers we can explore the artists corners of Borneo by boat so now we're on an excursion to another madcap phenomenon of this island of the incomprehensible [Music] through the unending jungle the tropical forest that chokes this equatorial land onto more Borneo madness vast caves that provide the heights of luxury for a [ __ ] sandwich stupendous grotto that yield treasures for celestial feasting sounds fantastic but it's Borneo that yawning entrance is 200 feet high inside the ceiling of the cave rises to 400 feet from the blackness with in the outside world makes a picture of dazzling bridges the limestone grotto is so stupendous this is virtually a hollow Mountain what lives within the eternal black birds millions of birds [Music] they're Swift and certainly deserved the name streaks of steam don't crowd the innumerable Swift there's a hawk preying on the swiss predatory birds find a bounteous hunting field here mankind preys on the nests of the swift these tiny birds are the benefactors of the [ __ ] and his bird's nest soup flats inhabit the cave by day the fetid homebuilders by night a colony of millions the Swift's build their homes in the sightless black of the cavern and there the nests are gathered by the name the bird's nest hunters under the Cape twenty years the Caravan carried its loot to a government post tradin met in the caves of the swift is strictly regulated by the government the second largest industry and formula the take of a semi-annual expedition like this may be valued as high as $100,000 the government claims have and the hunters get has an inspector grades the nests for quality and that provokes many allowed Borneo argued cement their nests with the kind of mucus saliva that's the essence the prime ingredient for the [ __ ] suit white nests are best no feathers in them they have told as high as $30 a pound the blacker the Nets more feathers the poorer the great selling as low as six percent upon plundered from Borneo bird sees our epicurean fitbit's or the banquets of distant China that's where they messed around and the expedition pushes on but not to any mere freak of nature at this time this next leg of the journey takes them to the headhunter [Music] [Applause] [Music] the current grows Swift they have to pull the boat pushed along by thrusting against the bottom fighting the Kirk push him up Barney oh boy and sometimes it's overboard the home of the headhunters is far far upstream the river rushing from the Highlands to come to cataracts depart going for the boatman they can make scarcely any progress every ounce of strength is needed to drive an inch forward and sometimes they don't go forward at all but are swept backwards [Music] too much turn too much swirled they can't get ahead can't even get ahead in the land of the headhunter [Music] [Music] the black curse of this land has been the Trostle pursuit of human head that's what gave the island its reputation for ferocity and created the legend of the wild man of Borneo British and Dutch authorities have labored to stamp out the dread practice in their territory head hunting severely punished but secretly that old custom of horror still survives in the remote jungle cases still come to life of the savages taking head well the Martin Johnsons have seen these parts before 18 years ago on their previous trip to Borneo they visited the headhunters of these parts the tingoora tried the tin d'harans were of evil notoriety as craniums matches in the times gone by presumably they'd stopped the practice now hoe you never can tell [Music] at any rate they don't rush off wild and bloodthirsty the headhunters of Borneo always were known to be good-natured teachable timorous almost and there he is back among old friends so naturally there's a party of Borneo Jamboree with drinking and singing they chew tobacco also the narcotic people know that's what stains their mouth the borneo drinks are firing rice wine and a knockout toddy made a promise when they drink they sing [Applause] they look hardly fierce enough to be headhunters but that hideous custom was not warlike ferocity it was superstition the fear of evil spirits officiating the supernatural they worked themselves up to a headhunting frenzy by superstitious right traditional chants and the drinking of the palm toddy like this [Music] they celebrated for days the palm toddy circulating too creamy they were getting into a dangerous mood it seems maybe a headhunting mood they might break into some mad frenzy and things were coming to a head so while this continues OSA has departed she's gone downstream by boat to the base camp to return in the airplane and try and get the expedition out of this rather embarrassing situation here the giant bird comes winging pilot joomla nari has practiced the art of landing on Borneo River risky flying heels those winding treacherous streams submerge floating logs are apparel out there the Thunderbird makes the king guards go wild they think it's the palm toddy think they're seeing vain [Music] in all their weird legends of goats and witchcraft there's nothing like this the devil bird that sits on the water [Music] the climax of the headhunters celebrating the magic right and the water is full of king daughters as they swarm to the plane the rest of them coming out in canoes [Music] [Music] maybe it's time to be going they might decide to take the head of the Thunderbird we Sutter take off [Music] [Applause] so goodbye Pingala they yell and shriek and fall overboard taking a heavy [Applause] [Music] they fly downstream to the raft which they left tied up in the river there's the raft and it looks like home for relief after a case of jungle jitters what next some new pretenders episode they're in for what seems like a mere gay interlude and cannot guess that this relief to the culminating jungle drama OSHA's taking it easy when business arrived and she finds she can talk to them having been to Sun Deck and for Hari and Eva are vain of their knowledge of English I mean man when you go by you speak English yes I speak English very much well where'd you learn English oh I've been turned up at some time my father he kept animals and I go between four to ten and I learn to sing and back and I learn some English voice him everybody when you live no no way you want to come to feed yes sure where you live up here yes wrong way wrong way alright come on let's go sure let's go come on [Music] so they paddle off to pay a Borneo social call a prime opportunity to study native ways and customs science is interested in the human phenomena of this trial of the barbaric in times past the fierce name of kayak was applied indiscriminately to the Borneo primitive now they're known to consist of many tribes of diverse racial antecedents a puzzle problem for the anthropology [Music] here they're fraternally received by the corneal collector of wild beasts and his retinue as one animal man to another [Music] Logan the interpreter is badly smitten with a malady as common in Borneo and in other places Logan is a tribals Cavalier a Borneo troubadour he can sing love songs and war made proudly in pigeons nothing I come look see you well [Music] native light at its most characteristic a study for the ethnology here where the Borneo animal man has his headquarters and where his daughter's roll their own it's native to battle the cigarette paper is the lead for the Neko pawn the sociologists observed that women enjoy a modernistic degree of freedom on this island of Tara docks they take a lively part in village life wild woman of Borneo somehow Fiddler's found its way to jungle town Borneo music is barbaric primitive Park or there are dreamy lovely tune South Sea songs this fiddling isn't exactly the dreamy lovely guy [Music] ready for a festival in honor of the Martin Johnson the climax in this study of native customs and culture they've invited other River tribes come to the party now science can go deep into tropical Anthropology can make a profound analysis of Borneo ethnology so let's have the scientific aspect propounded by that distinguished anthropologist and this knowledge is Professor a little air thank you Borneo ethnology begins with a Malayan gamelan music when legendary dance drive away the drive over Italy does hey Uncle Phil oh where are you going oh boy it's analogy listen out for a little jug guzzling when a bit liquid dynamite you're gonna form water image or don't notice jug afar this is more habit than custom to weaken up the party anybody don't like that Club lines of queasy one of your lovers never give up but still she won't give over [Music] hey fellows somebody is coming here okay we zoom inhaling so different Borneo where the wild men come from their foolish believer party upon you shellac house you listen all the tears run blue boy you better watch out for pillow he gets too much play in the reaction okay boys nobody misses you if you don't freeze your latest match even the swimmers of people that show looks great if you're foolish knob don't he's had enough out there to go again how's he worthy it's a game they ain't headhunter was they're gonna have a couple of big ones in the morning hey my my you a lot of pride today okay she's gone when they are gone dude the wicked that jungle jump steady and yes I it was a Greek party a good time was had by all Wilbur and uncle Philip went out like wet matches for Neville's then uncle Philip is setting craps for the pink hippopotamuses he's seeing right now the jungle giant has been spying wrong a terror of the village they call it the devil be one with us win-win village or a mini-fridge when in min come in off it so now these people here don't catch him there there's their trappers who can shoot ever nobody can all right get going Jim fun get all the boys and we'll go out and see what we can do in a hurry up hurry up now they're going to hunt the orangutan and they're going to do it the barney hallway with a net the monster anthropoid has repeatedly terrorized the village and defied the native hunters now bucked up by the leadership of the white man they're all nerfed tracked down the wild man of the forest Navy Scouts have reported the Arang to be in the deepest of the thickest it will take all sorts of toil and cunning to bring the Beast to Bay and snaring in their net and it may take days careful Oh son the slip would be perilous in the face of the arranged [Music] trail is hot the Arang is near there that's the first limb a wild man of the forest look at him climb the Arang is more a creature of the treetops and he's cousins to chimpanzee and gorilla his bolt was up the roof of the jungle and he sure knows how to get there [Music] [Music] up to the topmost branches he swings up enough 300 pounds of nimble orangutan [Music] they see that he's a huge male and that makes it pretty sure that we're in for a formidable battle for the male rank is one of the fiercest fighters on earth the melees gave the species its name or wrangle tang wild man um before [Music] how are they going to get him he's swinging through the trees with the greatest of agility why can't he light out through the treetops and just keep on going why can't he make a beeline for some distant more remote jungle perhaps is an ARMA swing keeps him from out distancing his facility perhaps he hasn't enough sense of strategy for that or more logically he just isn't afraid cry in his native jungle he may be too contemptuous of the hunters to flee to the far distance anyway he keeps out of their immediate reach flicking them over wondering what they're up to the strategy of this hunt is to maneuver him to a convenient tree where they can isolate him the wild man of Borneo facing the peril of being trapped in an isolated tree [Music] but so they got him cornered this time there's a wide space between the trees he's been maneuvered to a place where apparently it's impossible for him to jump from one tree to another watchi he teams puzzles can he make it [Music] twice he tries his tremendous flying leap he doubtfully Thailand pulled back made a magnificent old gloomy face is sure putting up a glorious struggle men are chopping down some more on the street trying to isolating clearing away the team so he can't escape cutting an open space all around hoping it'll be too white for any jungle eat look out mister alright they're only taking your picture now but there's worse to come they're going to chop down the one you're perched at and then what will you do down goes astray barielle Dean hi breaks away prices through the pollen polio they chasing with the net hope this Mary bus they're not too anxious to get married up a vine he goes up into another tree a wild man of Borneo at large leaf jungle again [Music] here's something that looked like a bold gesture climbing up a string don't worry he's justhe's yes [Music] dropping down hill more trees study my chelated once more and this time they've actually cut off all canted escapes he's a prisoner in his last peacock mark makes cameras touch the chance of a lifetime employment three great anthropoids the orangutan is in some respects for most humans his face is savage and forbidding I spoke together knows without any break but he has 12 pairs of ribs like a human being while the chimpanzee and gorilla have 13 men like eight infuriated wild man look out below watch your head he's ripping off branches tossing him down he realizes now he's trapped no tree anywhere near that he can escape no way out no wonder he's racist mark and OSHA grind out film pictures of the Aranda fury ripping and tearing stripping treetops bare branches they carry away the jungle growth in clear and opening space of several acres around the place mr. Lang climbed higher and higher but there's no way of escape in that direction no escape into the sky all he can do is climb as high as he can [Music] this time they're not going to cut down the treat strategy the difference they cutting treat they're going to keep him there they're going to try and wait him out they think this well perhaps you losing patience thanks down out of the tree dinnertime as they keep their vigil they're off to outstay the Iran [Music] camping out night coming on they got the tree so completely isolated that there can be no escape in the darkness king of the forest that at bay a prisoner in his own realm wonder if you tried to come down during the night Nepal [Music] in people there when dawn breaks she sure is in fact he's still asleep how can they get him out of the tree well they try something new this time something strangely modern to startle mr. roaring and driving down the airplane that also frightening to earth instead and just leaves on the plane almost raised again silly sleeps or pretend to the forest giant and the ultra-modern of the machine a plane again and again in the treetops but instead of being terrified mr. Arang merely drowsy brass [Music] [Music] young will defiance the civilization and the Machine Age and what does he care his jungle soul knows nothing about terror from the skies and the plains done simply doesn't work [Music] [Music] [Music] so now let's try the native way rope and nuisance they've caught a brand the old wire of the jungle Mauro's and fights he doesn't know what it is but whatever it is he doesn't want he doesn't know that they're trying to snare him in a loop of rope crying's it's dragging down while they cut at the tough wiry limb he bent his fury on that rope [Music] then they make more noises made with all the cunning of the borneo hunter mares of rope but the Arang hasn't figured it out what does he know about Slipknot but he does know that it has something to do with his enemy that it's a human trick comes into getting here's the battlefield from the ground to the highest treetops [Music] with their lashes on poles they tried to catch he dressed in a loop he simply doesn't realize the risk that he's taking as he fights back trying to break the pole [Music] they have the cunning he the ferocity but our old boy you'll get your hand caught [Music] [Music] look out that Slipknot's going to drop around your wrist urine up and death [Applause] now it's dragging down he still has the strength of many men [Music] what an incredible fight he puts up the last desperate defense of the wild man of Borneo notice how longer his hands and feet and as powerful as steel hang on by his feet with a tremendous grip matching strength with the weight and power of a whole mob of men little does he dreams that means about to leave Borneo now on his way to a far-off zoo training at the Rope to his last ounce of strength he feels only the tremendous desperation of the jungle wild as they dragging down wild man of Borneo playing the game out to his last gasp and then Donnie panties worn out passed on around him they fling their nets but even now there's fight left he can still tear himself free [Music] vanquished at last but no the incredible happen surely he can't get out of that not even with all of his ponderous strength for luck what's that last burst of anthropoid power in his blue [Music] that was glowing just one final fling but now the jig is up white hanky prison in a net even now the hunters holding in great respect you can see that by the way they time up with enough nets and ropes to bind up a whole tribe of men then the dance of triumph they fans wish their dread enemies the dark Menace to their villain the conquest of the wild man of the forest is a victory and be for the jungle [Music] [Applause] client is right there's a lot of orangutan in battlenet a ponderous burden to carry along jungle trails back to camp [Music] Martin Junction it was indeed a memorable experience leaving the tribesmen of Borneo against the wild man of Borneo and it left an abiding impression on Martin the forest men against the great forests 8 now it's the cage for the Iranian they're careful with him for he's far from subdued here's 10 Merle a cage king of the tropical wife what a magnificent prize for a zoo in some faraway American city visitors will get him children will chatter and marvel at the monster he lunch bananas an idol the day long in each dance he'll be an announcer deployed paradise man but a newly captured orangutan doesn't look that far ahead doesn't know all about that and he rages with the dark unruhe generous soul of the jungle [Music] [Music] this was Martin Johnson's greatest capture that hopper scowling face stands for Borneo the climax and clothes of a great career the career of the popular national market Johnson [Music]