The Sport Parade: Camera Thrills in Wildest Africa

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Year Published: 1939

Creator: Castle Films

Complete Record: Corny intertitles - e.g., “In Africa, man and beast fight for survival.” Crocodiles swimming, eating. Safari guys filming wildlife. Antelope running in herds, leaping. Wildebeest herds, running. Zebra herd, zebras running. Hippopotamus swimming, lounging in water, drinking. Safari guys in boat. Giraffe walking, standing, running. Safari guys build a tree house for their camera. Cheetah eating, lying on the grass. Cheetah climbs onto safari guys’ car and bites at their luggage. Rhinoceros walking, running, standing. Leopard eating his prey, dragging the prey across the veldt. Vulture in treetop, vultures swooping down on dead animal. Safari guys drive through tall grass--there is no road. Elephants in the brush, elephant herd pulling branches off of trees and eating them. Good CU of elephant. Lions half-hidden in the grass. CU of men filming from top of car. Male lion walks through trees, runs across field; MS of female lion stalking antelope. Lion and antelope fight. Lion rushes at cameramen, they shoot her. She runs away, then falls down dead. Camera tracks toward dead lioness. Safari guys examine the dead lion, then tie her to the hood of their car.