Kipling, Sabu, and Goldie Hawn: Reflections on Elephant Boy , a Forgotten Film of Robert Flaherty's
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 27; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/08949468.2014.852939
ISSN1545-5920
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ResumoPerhaps Robert Flaherty's most insignificant film, Elephant Boy [1937 1937 Elephant Boy. Starring Sabu, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and a cast of elephants. Directors: Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda; producer: Alexander Korda; camera: Osmond Borradaile and Robert Flaherty. Denham: London Films; b & w, 78 or 85 mins. Available at http://archive.org/details/ElephantBoy [Google Scholar]] was made during a commercial partnership with Alexander Korda in the Mysore jungles. It starred Sabu and countless elephants, and was reminiscent of Cooper and Schoedsack's Chang [1927 1927 Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. Directed and filmed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures; b & w, 64 mins . [Google Scholar]]. Both films are unmentioned in visual anthropology textbooks. Only the two film historians, Calder-Marshall [1963 Calder-Marshall , Arthur 1963 The Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty . New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. ; London : W. H. Allen . [Google Scholar]] and Rotha [1983 1983 Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography . Jay Ruby , ed. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . [Google Scholar]], discuss this Flaherty film. It is based on a short story by Kipling, which in turn was based on a 19th-century autobiography of an elephant-catcher. Little could Flaherty have imagined that half a century later the forest locale where he filmed was to be the haunt of a notorious brigand who successfully kidnapped a top Canarese filmstar.
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