boat builders is an animated short film produced by walt disney , distributed by rko radio pictures and released on february 25 , 1938 .

the film was directed by ben sharpsteen and animated by frenchy de trémaudan , louie schmittt , chuck couch , eddie strickland , clyde geronimi , paul satterfield , archie robin , don patterson .

boat builders ( film )

boat builders
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“the future for left - handed wooden boat - builders looks bright , ” according to award - winning indie film producer , founder and former ceo of fandor and champion . . .
“i met alwyn enoe a few years ago on carriacou island in the caribbean . approaching 70 , he is one of the last wooden boat builders , ” said alexis andrews , the film’s director .
“vanishing sail” already has won several awards including the caribbean spirit award for best overall feature film at the caribbean tales film festival and the people’s choice award for best feature documentary at the trinidad & tobago film festival .
in the beginning of the movie , a child has an accident with a toy boat in a puddle . that toy boat is a scale model of the ss united states
the overlapping toy boat and sailing ship connects the real world with the boys’ imagination .
apocalypse wow : . . . pretty much the whole point of the film .
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on the tiny island of carriacou in the eastern caribbean , alwyn enoe is one of the last wooden boat builders practicing a trade that has been passed down the generations from the original scottish settlers who arrived more than two centuries ago .
mickey , donald , and goofy build a boat , but find it ' s harder than they had anticipated .
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it ' s very well animated , i found none of the gags not funny and it ' s just the right length . plus the gang succeed at the end - it ' s only minnie that lets them down . so overall , i highly recommend boat builders .
all they have to do is build a boat . it ' s so easy that even a child can do .
unless the ones building the boat are mickey , donald , and goofy , who somehow manage to foul it up .
the draft for boat builders shows none of the star names of many of the other shorts . e . g . we will not find fred moore or norm ferguson . small wonder , as at this time they were busy finishing up on snow white and the seven dwarfs .
( there ' s probably a pattern here . ) at the time of the film ' s release ,
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enoe’s story unfolds in the film “vanishing sail , ” which will be screened at 10 a . m . on sunday , april 3 , 2016 , at the maryland hall for the creative arts auditorium on chase street as part of the fourth annapolis film festival .
while watching this cartoon i noticed a blooper , watch closely in the sequence where after minnie hits the boat with a bottel the next scene shows the boat puilling away and we see goofy in his usual clothes , but the very next scene shows goofy in a . . . ( read more )
when the trio builds a boat
so simple a child could do it
you know it will be wrecked at the end . solid cartoon .
“this is the maryland premiere , ” andrews said . “this story culminates in an exciting wooden sailboat race with enoe’s boat winning a major prize . ”
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then again , if dr adrian didn ' t persuade the captain to open the gates , hundreds more people would have died ( the passengers who paid to be on the arks and the builders ) .
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chekhov ' s gunman : adrian ' s father is shown boarding a cruise ship early in the film , and he mentions that he has a son he stays in touch with . it isn ' t clear until later in the film that adrian is his son .
the film cuts from one story to another , and they are alternately laced with low - key humor , hints of tragedy and even whimsy . there ' s the goofy italian family of fishermen who buy coughlin ' s last boat and figure in a twist at the end of the film , the impending doom that seems to hang over joey and a mysterious young man who hangs around coughlin as a kind of angel of death .
if two allegations can be derived from one piece of moana still art , imagine the claims that’ll be made when the actual film is released .
the various references to wisconsin throughout the film ; first from an old lady at the beginning who regrets moving from there , it becoming the new location of the south pole at the end of the film , as well as being mentioned in the last sentence of jackson ' s novel .
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it’s something that i think they have gone ahead with without any approval from the itaukei affairs and the intellectual property owners , being the elders or the canoe builders of fiji . while it is great that pacific island voyaging culture is being featured , i do hope the owners ( canoe builders ) will receive appropriate compensation for use of their canoe design since the movie will make billions of dollars and the people from korova are not being exploited .
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mickey buys a boat kit , and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it . the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
. . .
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in this short , mickey mouse and his friends donald duck and goofy attempt to build a boat ( which they name queen minnie ) , which is made from fold - out parts ( the instructions simply say
all you do is put it together
and
even a child can do it
) , though they encounter problems of their own as they go ( e . g . donald paints the rudder which keeps being turned by mickey , and goofy thinks the figurehead is an actual woman ) . their maiden voyage turns out to be their last , as the boat collapses as it sets sail , thanks to minnie mouse hitting the champagne bottle ( to christen the boat ) just too hard on the boat .
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monocle takes a trip to turkey ' s bodrum shipyards to watch the century - old skills that are still right at the heart of the peninsula ' s revered boat - making businesses .
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secondly , it is impossible to not like this short . mickey , donald and goofy make a boat . to quote a reviewer from a website i like to visit :
wackiness ensures
.
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fijian organizations argue that disney used the design of a traditional boat called a camakau ( pronounced tha - ma - cow ) without their permission . colin philp , a mua voyage coordinator , told the fiji times :
coughlin only knows one way to build boats and he ' s not about to change his ways now . but that means he ' s out of work , as is his small crew of boat builders  john alder ( beau bridges ) , whose wife is about to deliver their fifth child ; daryl monahan ( vincent phillip d ' onofrio ) , who has to care for his retarded younger brother joey ( michael lewis ) ; and daryl ' s best friend eddie johnson ( kevin j . o ' connor ) .
homer spent the summer of 1873 in gloucester , massachusetts , where he painted the boat builders , which belongs to a series of prints and drawings devoted to shipbuilding . his genius for subtle yet penetrating narrative is apparent in the central passage of this small canvas : by overlapping the toy boat and the sailing ship , the artist connects the real world of fishermen with the boys ' imagination . the juxtaposition also predicts the future of these cape ann youths , who will likely make their living from the sea . the painting conveys a sense of deep peace as the boys play quietly in the brilliant sunlight . a celebrated magazine illustrator , homer also used this image of two boys in an engraving for the harper ' s weekly of october 11 , 1873 .
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all of these stories are handled with gentle care , making the film quite personal and fairly charming . but none of the stories or performances is particularly impressive so that in the end it simply seems overly familiar .
during the early 1870s , homer often explored a single theme through several media , and his oil painting , boat builders , set on the coast of gloucester , massachusetts , relates to a series of prints and drawings devoted to shipbuilding . homer also used this image of the two boys in an engraving for the october 11 , 1873 , issue of harper’s weekly . the scene pairs homer’s love of outdoor subjects with his fondness for themes of boys at play . in the central passage , homer’s genius for subtle , yet penetrating narrative connects the real nautical world with the boys’ imagination by overlapping the toy boat and sailing ship . in their play , the two boys may have been preparing for future lives at sea as fishermen , sailors , or shipwrights . this panel bears only a trace of the ominous tone that often pervades homer’s paintings of life by the sea .
“vanishing sail” is one of 70 films that organizers plan to screen over four days— from thursday , march 31 to sunday , april 3— at the festival , which will also include workshops , post - film discussions and other activities .
amazingly , the boat isn’t the only tenuous claim of infringement being made against that piece of moana concept art . an anonymous reader sent the image below that alleges disney used a photo from this website for the background of their moana concept art . here’s the “proof” :
action film , quiet drama scene : multiple , particularly the scene in air force one between adrian and laura , what ' s left of washington dc and the president , and the scenes involving jackson and his family in yuri ' s plane .
great animation and backgrounds . that ' s some magical ship that builds itself and defies the laws of physics . is goofy really so dumb he can ' t recognize an inanimate wood statue from a living person ? how does the boat disassemble itself even though it has been nailed together ?
at about two minutes and ten seconds into the film , goofy is seen hammering a nail into a board presumably meant for the starboard side of the ship . however , when he take his hand away , there are two nails hammered in , not one .
why contemporary fijian boatmakers deserve compensation for a centuries - old boat design to which they have no authorship or ownership rights isn’t explained in the piece . from a legal perspective , there’s currently no evidence to suggest that disney doesn’t have the same rights as the fijian boatmakers to use a traditional camakau design in their work .
what little plot there is revolves around the closure of owen coughlin ' s ( kennedy ) waterfront boat - building company , which has been around for more than a century but must now close thanks to the pressures of such cost - cutting measures as fiberglass , which are used by competitors , forcing coughlin out of business .
arthur kennedy , perhaps best known as the photojournalist who followed peter o ' toole around in
lawrence of arabia ,
returns to the screen after a 10 - year absence in
signs of life ,
a little slice - of - life film set in a small maine fishing town .
mickey buys a boat kit , and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it . the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
, so of course , they have their share of troubles . but even these three soon have the queen minnie ready to launch . so , with appropriate . . . ( more )
“he and his sons spent 30 months building one last racing sloop and i was lucky enough to be able to document it on film . in the old days these wooden ships were an important part of the caribbean culture known as sail - trading or more accurately as the smuggling of contraband , ” andrews said .
mickey buys a boat kit , and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it . the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
, so of course , they have their share of troubles . but before long , they ' re ready to launch the queen minnie , with appropriate fanfare , at which time , all the collapsible parts collapse .
“our tradition of sailing films on sunday at the annapolis film festival has always been a hit , but this year is especially strong and we expect a great turnout , ” burch said . “we just learned that his excellency , dr . angus friday , ambassador for grenada to the usa will be with us for ‘vanishing sail . ’ we could not be more thrilled . ”
take that : a very lazy shot at arnold schwarzenegger (
he ' s an actor - he ' s reading from a script !
) . there is a veritable myriad of take - thats in the film , but there ' s so many that it ' s kind of hard to pinpoint them all . western civilization ? religion ? rich people ? russians ?
apocalypse how : judging by the sight of huge chunks of los angeles getting ripped out of the ground , this is likely to be a class 2 at the very least . we look at about class 3b , maybe class 4 , depending on the severity of volcanism and floods . the end of the film implies only class 1 - the vast majority of humans are dead , but civilization perseveres .
as for ark encounter , so far , land has been purchased , design work has been completed , and amish builders from indiana have been enlisted for construction . the ark is expected to cost about $ 21 million , of which the ministry has raised more than $ 8 million ( supporters can sponsor a peg for $ 100 ; a “lifetime charter boarding pass” is available for $ 3 , 000 per family ) . when i asked zovath whether his project was really achievable—whether he could safely and efficiently fabricate a multimillion - dollar tourist attraction to god’s specifications , using only wooden pegs , planks , beams , and whatever else might have been available to noah—he didn’t hesitate .
the two men work out of a warehouse - like space in an anonymous industrial complex in hebron , kentucky . when i visited this fall , i was shown a few scale models of their ark , which , compared with the delightful wooden boat pictured in many a children’s book , is a terrifying - looking thing : it has no portholes or open decks , and except for a single door that god is supposed to have slammed behind noah ( “and jehovah shut him in” ) and some very narrow openings for light and ventilation , the vessel is sealed off in a way that suggests a giant floating coffin .
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michael zovath and patrick marsh would prefer to not take quite as long . with a small team of designers and builders , they’re preparing to construct a colossal wooden ark per the directives presented in the bible and in accordance with what they refer to as the “sound established nautical engineering practices” of noah’s time . when completed , their 510 - foot - long ark—the centerpiece of a biblical theme park to be called ark encounter—will take up about one and a half football fields . ( there has been something of a global ark - building boom in recent years , but zovath and marsh’s structure promises to outstretch even its biggest competitors , including the concrete - and - glass - fiber ark built in hong kong in 2009 , which is 450 feet long , and a similarly sized vessel constructed by a wealthy businessman in the netherlands after he dreamed that the country had flooded . )
ark encounter—which is to sit on an 800 - acre plot of land in williamstown , about 40 miles south of cincinnati—will be filled with actors and animals ( some real , some mechanical ) and will also feature a tower of babel , a walled city , an aviary , a “first - century village , ” and something called a “journey through biblical history , ” involving a boat ride down the nile . like all kentucky tourist attractions , ark encounter is eligible for generous state tax incentives—in this case , controversially , up to $ 43 million over 10 years . the park also has the unequivocal support of kentucky’s democratic governor , steve beshear , who likes to boast that the complex could produce up to 900 jobs .
most of the film operates under this , particularly the depiction the eruption of the yellowstone supervolcano . except for gordon , who raises his hand very calmly to his eyes in reaction to the brightness , the other protagonist ' s barely react to the eruption and come out completely unscathed . no - one goes deaf from the sound of the eruption , while the shockwave throws charlie a couple of feet backwards , despite the trees all around him being uprooted in their thousands . finally the pyroclastic flow slows down to let the plane time to escape unharmed , while ignoring convection not to boil them alive and after emerging from the ash cloud , the plane isn ' t even dirty .
convection schmonvection : the movie seems to forget that in pyroclastic flows , the heat kills people long before the ash cloud touches them . of course , they do stay barely ahead of the flow itself . while that ' s already testing of the suspension of disbelief , if they were all the way in the cloud , they ' d be dead . they do very briefly get caught inside of the flow in an airplane , which makes even less sense , since airplanes generally don ' t run well in clouds of superheated ash . bizarrely , the film then starts paying attention to the laws of physics again , just in time for said pyroclastic flow to utterly disintegrate las vegas airport ( and the city itself ) .
another childhood favorite , re - watching reminded me of how , when i got into silent slapstick , it all seemed so familiar - mainly because silent - era slapstick is the source of so many 1930s - 1950s animated film gags . this short could just as easily have starred buster keaton . i ' ve always enjoyed the shorts that feature disney ' s big three as a team , and this is no exception , but i had forgotten the odd interlude with goofy and the mermaid statue , which is something that definitely didn ' t age well . i forgot how standard the gag of something violently repelling ( either an animal , man in drag or an inanimate object ) and the lead saying she ' s playing hard to get or is feisty or whatever is .
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frenchy de tremaudan , louie schmittt , chuck couch , eddie strickland , clyde geronimi , paul satterfield , archie robin , don patterson .
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tugboat skipper mickey mouse and his inept crew , consisting of donald duck and goofy , try to save a sinking ship .
goofy ( front ) and donald ( rear ) are dressed in a female moose suit , trying to lure a moose for hunter mickey . when they do find one , it turns out to be more than they can handle .
mickey and his friends take a vacation in his house trailer equipped with all the latest modern conveniences . heading up a steep mountain road with goofy driving the car , surely nothing can go wrong .
mickey mouse and donald duck , with the help of goofy the iceman , try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture .
four bored ghosts in a haunted house who ' ve scared everyone away call up ghost hunters mickey , donald , and goofy in hopes to have a little fun scaring them off .
when a giant threatens the land , the city folk mistake mickey ' s boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants . he is then forced to fight the giant for real .
mickey , donald , and goofy are cleaning a large clock . among the complications : mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn ' t want to leave , donald gets tangled up in the main - spring , and goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four .
mickey , donald and goofy are fire fighters . as you might expect , their attempts at fighting a boarding house fire are not particularly effective . they hear clarabelle singing in the bathtub . . . see full summary »
mickey has been reading lewis carroll ' s
through the looking - glass , and what alice found there
, and falls asleep . he finds himself on the other side of the mirror , where the furniture is . . . see full summary »
the gang is on vacation . goofy has some surfing problems , donald learns why you don ' t wear a grass skirt near a fire , pluto and a starfish have a tiff , followed by an encounter with a hermit crab .
mickey is a stage magician , and goofy is a stagehand . donald is sitting in a box seat , and soon starts heckling . mickey retaliates , among other things by making him spit out playing cards , . . . see full summary »
mickey mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match .
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maybe that mermaid goofy has the hots for jinxed them . . . . . .
donald is wasted here and way too much time is spent watching goofy trying to seduce a wooden mermaid .
there are a bunch of things on this poster that are not in the movie . they should have been .
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mickey , donald , and goofy construct the ship “queen minnie” from folding component parts . when minnie launches the ship by hitting it with a champagne bottle , she whacks it so hard that , once out at sea , it separates into its parts again .
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this mickey short was therefor animated by louie [ schmidtt ] , chuck couch , eddie strickland , frenchy de trémaudan , gerry geronimi , paul satterfield , archie robin and [ don ] patterson .
it does bring home the fact that the experienced animators frenchy and geronimi were not considered
good enough
to animate on the feature , as they were animating alongside those who likely used to be their assistants in the early 30s , schmidtt , couch , strickland and robin , while satterfield and patterson were relative newcomers to the disney studio .
looking at the numbering of the scenes , it looks like there were quite some adjustments , maybe after preview , especially on draft page two . where on the draft is the scene
we ' ll call her the queen minnie
? i suspect there are several scenes that are so called
camera cuts
where the scene continues on the same background and exposure sheet , but the field shifts without panning , immediately at the new location .
directed by ben sharpsteen , released two months after snow white ' s premiere , on 2 / 25 / 38 . this draft dated 10 / 26 / 37 . . .
thanks for this ! i always welcome these kinds of shorts drafts ! oddly enough , i remember watching this cartoon a couple of years ago and trying to figure out which scenes were
camera cuts
. looking at it again i suspect the scene you mentioned of mickey announcing
we ' re call her the queen minnie !
is part of scene 2
three characters looking at catalogue .
i remember watching this as part of a vhs called
mickey and the gang
with a collection of shorts of mickey mouse , donald duck and goofy , and this short was one of them , and i was always entertained by this cartoon . i was quite surprised that there are mainly underrated people working on this short , i expected people like art babbitt , fred moore or even dick lundy working on it , or something .
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the weakest plot element is beau bridges ' foray into crime , which seems more contrived than desperate , though it offers a nice wrap - up . the best is kennedy ' s , especially as we discover who his angel - visitor is . and the best performances come from d ' onofrio and lewis , though their story is not as compelling as it might have been .
on the whole it is a moderately recommendable effort , produced by american playhouse , meaning it will probably wind up on pbs one day soon .
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for a new theme park , creationists ( with a little help from a geneticist , some amish men , and generous tax breaks ) are building a replica of noah’s ark—exactly as god instructed .
early in the book of genesis , god becomes revolted by his own work . deviant and immoral , man was not what he’d had in mind : “and jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually . ”
enraged by our collective failing of character , god readied the flood waters . he chose a righteous , blameless man and tasked him with repopulating the planet . his instructions were explicit :
make thee an ark of gopher wood ; rooms shalt thou make in the ark , and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch . and this is how thou shalt make it : the length of the ark three hundred cubits , the breadth of it fifty cubits , and the height of it thirty cubits . a light shalt thou make to the ark , and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward ; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof ; with lower , second , and third stories shalt thou make it .
it turns out that erecting a massive ark based on a few lines of ancient verse raises some practical quandaries . gopher wood , for example , is not a kind of wood recognized by modern arborists . likewise , a cubit , the unit of measurement employed by god in genesis , is not a standardized metric , although many people believe it refers to the length of a man’s forearm , from his elbow to the tip of his middle finger . then there are the countless mysteries ( scatological , sociological ) about the interior , where noah , his seven family members , and his herd of animals ( “of every living thing of all flesh , two of every sort” ) are said to have spent a year and six days .
zovath is a senior vice president and co - founder of answers in genesis , a group of biblical literalists who believe that the earth was created 6 , 000 years ago , over the course of six consecutive days . the ministry , which is spearheading ark encounter , has some experience with this sort of undertaking , albeit on a smaller scale : in 2007 , in petersburg , kentucky , it opened the creation museum , a 70 , 000 - square - foot complex consisting of a café , several movie theaters , a planetarium , and 160 exhibits elucidating events recounted in the book of genesis .
as an apologetics ministry , answers in genesis is devoted to defending the christian faith via a literal reading of the bible , without allowances for allegory . rather than publicly disavow science , though , the group has appropriated its methodology , hiring teams of creationism - friendly researchers to weigh in on ark - related puzzles . ( speaking of science , answers in genesis plans to use energy - efficient leed technologies for the park’s heating , cooling , and lighting systems , so as “to be good stewards of creation”—though zovath , for all his preoccupation with flooding , has said he doesn’t believe in global warming . )
one team of advisers , led by georgia purdom , who has a doctorate in molecular genetics from ohio state university , is attempting to compile a definitive list of which animals would have been required to re - speciate the earth in noah’s time . according to the answers in genesis web site , god allowed for the “potential for tremendous variety within the original created kinds . ” through “genetic mutations and other mechanisms , ” those original kinds generated the “great diversity of living things we see today . ” although by some estimates nearly 8 million species of animals are thought to inhabit the planet right now , answers in genesis believes that noah would have needed just 2 , 000 to 4 , 000 “original kinds” for his ark—which helps explain how everyone managed to fit . the original created kind later yielded all other kinds : the ur - dog begat wolves , dingoes , foxes , great danes , poodles , and so on . “we’re trying to define—and it’s never been done before , we’re breaking new ground—how many dogs make up a dog - kind , and what does that dog - kind look like ? , ” zovath said .
my questions about other specifics were met with a quick , relentless defense . how did eight people feed and clean up after several thousand wild animals ? conveyor belts . how did noah pack enough food for everyone ? he pelletized it . what kept all the animals from eating each other ? the hand of god .
“we don’t want anyone to think we’re just making things up , ” said marsh , who is ark encounter’s design director .
answers in genesis contemplated building a full - scale ark as a sister attraction to the creation museum as early as 2004 , but the idea became more plausible when a consulting firm estimated that an ark would receive 1 . 6 million visitors in its first year . zovath told me he was further heartened by a survey , conducted by 60 minutes and vanity fair in 2009 , concerning which “lost artifacts” respondents might like to see : the ark swept it , claiming 43 percent of the vote ( atlantis was next , at 18 percent ) . “people are fascinated with the ark—with the whole account , ” zovath said .
hoping for some added insight into the ark story’s enduring appeal , i headed to the creation museum’s sizable ark exhibit , one of its biggest draws . there , i watched an animatronic noah make hash marks on a curling piece of papyrus , then pause to answer a few preprogrammed inquiries , barking his responses like a seasoned catskills comedian . ( “why did i build the ark ? well , i built the ark because , simply put , god told me to ! ” )
the rest of the exhibit , though , was surprisingly frank about the gruesomeness of the flood . in one diorama , the ark floats past a rock inhabited by screaming , about - to - drown humans ( one particularly unlucky figure is also being mauled by a large cat ) . the darkness of the story surely contributes to its cultural weight ; as doomsday narratives go , the body count is nearly unbeatable .
“it’s certainly possible , ” he said . “it was done a few thousand years ago . ”
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concept art from moana ( left ) and traditional fijian camakau ( photo via wcs fiji ) .
disney’s next animated feature big hero 6 isn’t even out yet , but some parties have already begun claiming that moana , a disney feature scheduled for 2016 release , stole their intellectual property rights . the claims are based on a single piece of moana concept art that disney released last month .
there are two ways of looking at the traditional canoe being featured in the disney production . one would be people being happy that the traditional canoes are being featured . but the other way of looking at this is on the intellectual property rights side , that the canoe design or the collaboration of the design is quite valuable .
amid amidi is the publisher and editor - in - chief of cartoon brew . read his full bio here .
a new animation history book coming out this week aims to shed new light on the relationship between the two creators of mickey mouse .
75 people are losing their jobs at disney as the company shutters one of its animation divisions .
after more than a year of waiting , animation workers will soon receive the first payment from the $ 170 million settlement they won from various animation studios .
to celebrate mickey’s 90th birthday , taschen and disney have teamed up to produce a massive book on the character .
“legend of the three caballeros” was wrapped a while back , but it’s not available in the u . s .
‘incredibles 2’ is now the highest - grossing u . s . animation release of all - time
‘gumball’ team in u . k . will produce new cartoon network series ‘elliott from earth’
every day since 2004 , cartoon brew has delivered the latest news , trends and ideas in animation to over 25 , 000 different artists , entertainment execs and cartoon aficionados .
approaching age 70 and with no more orders coming in , enoe decides to build one last sailing sloop with the hope that his sons will continue the trade .
“it’s a whole experience and the memories don’t go away , ” said festival co - founder patti white , who noted that the festival’s vision is to establish maryland’s capital as a center for filmmakers to showcase different global perspectives and independent thought to a variety of audiences through their work .
some of the selected films include performances from hollywood a - listers and legends .
“the waiting , ” which will be featured on saturday , april 2 , stars legendary “godfather” actor james caan as the elderly victim of a supernatural plot by two teenage neighbors to convince him he is being haunted .
meanwhile , oscar winning “deer hunter” actor christopher walken and “friday night lights” actress amber heard star in “one more time , ” which , after its opening night screening , is scheduled again for sunday .
directed by robert edwards , “one more time , ” finds walken portraying a faded crooner stewing in his hamptons mansion over the professional acclaim that eluded him and the trail of romantic wreckage in his wake . the stew is stirred when daughter jude ( heard ) arrives with her own problems , including a rivalry with her overachieving sister , a ruinous love life , and a fraught relationship with her famous father .
festival organizers and others , though , are high on “vanishing sail , ” which follows enoe’s progress and despair over three years from hauling his trees out of the forest to a final traditional launching ceremony on the bayside .
juliet burch , the annapolis sailing festival director of programming , said filmmakers and renowned sailing aficionados andrews and gary jobson have come together to capture the attention of the local sailing community with their respective films , “vanishing sail” and “the magic & mystery of sable island . ”
“vanishing sail” is part of a transmedia project representing 15 years of research that includes a two - volume photography book , an archive of interviews with some of the top names in west indies sailing , the building of five , 42 - foot , transitional sailing vessels in carriacou and an annual regatta on the island of st . barthelemy that’s sponsored by unesco .
to view the trailer for “vanishing sail” visit : www . vanishingsail . com . for tickets or more information about the festival , visit : www . annapolisfilmfestival . com .
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2012 is a 2009 disaster movie based on the prediction that the world would end on december 21st , 2012 . this prediction is itself based on the fact that the mesoamerican long count calendar rolls over somewhere in the vicinity of 2012 - 12 - 21 , in much the same way that the gregorian calendar rolled over on 2000 - 01 - 01 . it mainly follows jackson curtis ( john cusack ) , a struggling , divorced chauffeur , attempting to survive the apocalypse with his family . the one thing that keeps him and his family alive are rumors of ' arks ' built by the world governments to keep what they can safe .
a spin - off tv series , tentatively called 2013 and focusing on a group of survivors , was planned . however , as abc decided to not finance it , it is uncertain if the series will ever see the light of day .
not to be confused with twenty twelve , a bbc sitcom about the committee preparing for the 2012 olympic games ; 2010 : the year we make contact , or rush ' s album twenty one twelve .
: justified in that gordon just got his pilot ' s license and can barely fly . barely fly upward , that is . he does amazingly well at dodging buildings and debris , something even an experienced pilot would have trouble with .
it happens in two instances , the second one has gordon pair up with an experienced russian pilot , flying a giant antonov plane . in all of these instances , the runway is disintegrating , but with the antonov , they actually run out of runway before reaching liftoff speed .
: the characters planned to stop in honolulu to refuel . the city , and the rest of o ' ahu , is
anyone can die : as befitting a movie about the end of the world , but even by disaster movie standards this one is pretty ruthless . don ' t get attached to anyone who ' s not john cusack ' s immediate family .
applied phlebotinum : the destruction of the earth is caused by the heating of its core , caused by excess neutrinos being emitted by the sun . however , since neutrinos almost never interact with matter , these are neutrinos that are
mutating into some other subatomic particle ,
presumably ones that can interact with matter more often . why these new particles don ' t interact with the earth ' s surface is unclear . lampshaded when adrian , listening about the neutrinos , simply declares
that ' s impossible
. he ' s right .
the ark : nine of them , in fact . though only four of them were completed in time , and one was critically damaged before it could be launched .


tarzan and the mermaids is a 1948 adventure film based on the tarzan character created by edgar rice burroughs .

directed by robert florey , it was the last of twelve tarzan movies to star johnny weissmuller in the title role .

it was also the first tarzan film since 1939 not to feature the character boy , adopted son of tarzan and jane .

( boy was described in the film as being away at school , and the character never returned to the series . )

tarzan and the mermaids

tarzan and the mermaids - - ( movie clip ) tarzan go . . .
the tarzan collection starring johnny weissmuller , vol . 2 tarzan triumphs , tarzan ' s desert mystery , tarzan and the amazons , tarzan and the leopard woman , tarzan and the huntress , tarzan and the mermaids
tarzan and the mermaids starring johnny weissmuller ~ no . 12 rko 1948 ~ 68 minutes
tarzan , the ape man ( 1932 ) . the production that started the weissmuller / tarzan series .
1948 tarzan and the mermaids ( 68 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . brenda joyce . tarzan travels to aquatania , a forbidden island land , to free its people from a corrupt high priest . tarzan dives from a perilously high cliff and battles a giant octopus before unmasking aquatania ' s pagan god and saving the day .
as if saying
and now something completely different
we come to tarzan and the mermaids , which relocates tarzan to the part of africa just inland from sunny acapulco . rko under howard hughes did quite a few mexican co - productions and this entry was shot on what looks like an expensive location . robert florey takes over for kurt neumann and his touch can be felt in some stylized sequences involving the fearsome living god balu . what it lacks in action - - there are few standard jungle thrills here - - tarzan and the mermaids makes up in novelty .
benji ( john laurenz ) is the local postman and jane ( brenday joyce ) and tarzan ( johnny weissmuller ) are hoping he ' ll bring a letter from
boy ,
who ' s off in england at school , and he doesn ' t notice runaway princess mara ( linda christain ) fixing her boat , in tarzan and the mermaids , 1948 . >
after
tarzan ' s new york adventure ,
mgm tired of the series and weissmuller took his loin cloth over to rko , where he made six more ape man adventures including
tarzan triumphs
( 1943 ) ,
tarzan ' s desert mystery
( 1943 ) ,
tarzan and the amazons
( 1945 ) ,
tarzan and the leopard woman
( 1946 ) ,
tarzan and the huntress
( 1947 ) and
tarzan and the mermaids
( 1948 ) . ( overweight , weissmuller left the tarzan series , but not the cinematic jungle . he strolled over to columbia pictures to star as jungle jim in a series of cheapos that lasted until 1955 . ) rko went on to produce six more tarzan movies , five starring lex barker and one with gordon scott . none of the rko films has been issued on video .
it was filmed in mexico . interior and underwater tank shots for mermaids were filmed at the churubusco studios in mexico city . exterior scenes were shot at several locations in and around acapulco on mexico ' s pacific coast .
boy unknowingly informs the less scrupulous members of the party of the existence of gold in tarzan ' s jungle and the adventure begins . the safari , along with jane and boy , are captured by natives and tarzan ( with the elephants ) must save his family .
up in arms ( 1944 ) ( as a goldwyn girl ) ~ tarzan and the mermaids ( 1948 ) ~ show boat ( 1951 ) ~ slaves of babylon ( 1953 ) ~ the v . i . p . s ( 1963 ) ~ the world ' s gold ( 1967 )
tarzan and the mermaids
has everything that has made the tarzans a hardy perennial these many years and a bit more . settings and scenery are spectacular and the thrills include , in addition to the customary jungle action , skin diving and swimming sequences , an underwater battle between johnny weissmuller and an octopus and a generous display of slightly - garbed femme shapeliness . . . results , especially the underwater shots are alone worth the price of admission . tarzans are invariably good box office and this one promises to outgross its predecessors .
johnny weissmuller ( title character ) is in fact fishing , this time accidentally catching runaway princess mara ( linda christian ) , whom jane ( brenda joyce ) is perfectly happy to welcome , benji ( john laurenz ) with singing commentary , in tarzan and the mermaids , 1948 .
johnny weissmuller ( title character ) is in fact fishing , this time accidentally catching runaway princess mara ( linda christian ) , whom jane ( brenda joyce ) is perfectly happy to welcome , benji ( john laurenz ) with singing commentary , in tarzan and the mermaids , 1948 . >
the idyllic life of tarzan and jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory , and come seeking jane as well .
tarzan ' s jungle home , and his family , jane and boy , are threatened by men greedy for gold .
tarzan and jane try to keep a woman from being forced to marry a con artist .
1947 tarzan and the huntress ( 72 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . brenda joyce . johnny sheffield . animal trappers come to capture animals for the zoos . they want more than they are legally allowed and have king farrod , a friend of tarzan ' s , killed to avoid the quota . tarzan gets involved and rescues the animals and makes sure the king ' s son , prince suli assumes the throne .
tarzan ' s secret treasure ( 1941 ) . tarzan battles gold hunters who hold jane and boy hostage . o ' sullivan reprises her role of jane .
[ note : tarzan films stretch into the silent film era back to 1918 . ] many actors have portrayed tarzan , mostly on the big screen , including :
i think everybody remembers this one . tarzan in a suit ! with the exception of the scene where tarzan dives off the bridge ( and an unnecessarily racist phone gag ) , i like everything about this movie .
tarzan and jane go to new york to rescue boy after he is kidnapped into a circus .
like any other teenager , robbie spent her high school years in various part - time jobs . she worked at subway , at a surf store and at a burleigh heads restaurant called mermaids , “because my mum’s boyfriend at the time owned it , ” she laughs .
if you ' re really into tarzan , there are several other versions available on video . the first screen tarzan , elmo lincoln , can be seen in the silent
tarzan , the mighty .
there ' s also
tarzan the fearless
( 1933 ) starring buster crabbe , and
tarzan and the green goddess
starring herman brix . both films were edited from 12 - chapter serials .
greystoke : the legend of tarzan , lord of the apes ,
released in 1983 , may be the closest to match burroughs ' conception . it ' s available on video , as is the incredibly inept version starring bo derek .
the first tarzan movie , tarzan of the apes ( 1917 ) starring elmo lincoln was shot at the atchafalaya river delta near morgan city , louisiana . a tourist attraction at 725 myrtle street now commemorates the spot .
1936 tarzan escapes ( 95 minutes - video , vcd , dvd ) johnny weissmuller . maureen o ' sullivan . jane ' s cousins hire an unscrupulous guide to help them find tarzan . they want to inform jane of a large inheritance she has received . the guide , on the other hand , wants to capture tarzan and make an exhibit of him . once again the safari is surrounded and captured by hostile natives and , with the help of the elephants , tarzan must rescue them .
weissmuller ' s white marble grave can be seen to the left of this “tarzan” stela .
paul sawtell did most of the music for the earlier rko tarzans but howard hughes must have liked this show because none other than dimitri tiomkin provides the stirring score . it sounds in some aspects like a mini - version of the fall of the roman empire and really dresses up the action and ritual scenes . most of the movie plays outdoors but the interior of balu ' s lair has nice , atmospheric shadow work . considering that the ' jungle adventure ' genre was at this time the domain of some of the cheapest filmmaking in hollywood , i don ' t see how tarzan and the mermaids could have earned back even a fraction of its cost .
tarzan collection tarzan and the mermaids , etc . dvd : urltoken johnny weissmuller , brenda joyce , george zucco , andrea palma , fernando wagner , edward ashley , john laurenz , gustavo rojo , matthew boulton , linda christian , stephen berne , silvia derbez , kurt neumann , robert florey , joseph noriega , albert depina , carroll young , edgar rice burroughs , hans jacoby , marjorie l . pfaelzer : dvd & blu - ray
this entry is short and sweet , with little time wasted on standard tarzan schtick . tarzan and boy befriend a beautiful desert horse , only to have it seized by otto kruger ' s bad guy . smart - talking connie bryce and tarzan never become an item , but her patter makes for some amusing dialogue scenes .
the tarzan character in the person of scott returned to mgm in 1957 for a new well - made series in technicolor . scott starred in four of the films , none of which has been released on video . there is one scott / tarzan
feature
floating around on video . it ' s a black - and - white effort called
tarzan and the trappers
and is put together from three episodes of a proposed tarzan tv series that never made it .
watch the film trailer for
the legend of tarzan ,
starring alexander skarsgrd , margot robbie and christoph waltz . photo : warner bros . pictures
zandra , white princess of a lost civilization , comes to tarzan for help when nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth . tarzan , the isolationist , . . . see full summary »
this sets up the famous
tarzan - jane
introductory conversation between them which involves lots of pointing , jabbing , and prodding . ( their conversation has been notoriously misquoted , and is not
me tarzan . you jane .
)
much of tarzan and the amazons omits tarzan ' s direct involvement . he ' s sort of a
father knows nothing
type , slamming the door on boy ' s curiosity about the scientists and their various ' scopes : telescopes , microscopes and binoculars . tarzan is jealous of boy ' s contact with the learned outsiders but we know all along that his decision not to help the expedition is wise . the scientists begin in a spirit of curiosity but bad guy ballister soon turns the trip into a treasure raid . tarzan dealt with that problem in every mgm show , and knows that strangers with guns and noble causes are not to be trusted . i vote we put tarzan in charge of our national parks and wildlife preserves .
nazis invade the jungle to loot the mineral treasures of the secret city of palandria . colonel von reichart ( stanley ridges ) forces the natives to work the mines , and kills the brother of the beautiful zandra ( frances gifford ) . she goes to tarzan for help . tarzan and boy have aided a german who has parachuted off course with the nazis ' only radio . cheta keeps swiping the radio ' s antenna coil , preventing the invaders from calling for reinforcements . boy and zandra try to convince tarzan to join in the fight , but only when tarzan becomes aware of nazi treachery ( and realizes that they ' re the same aggressors mentioned in jane ' s letters from london ) does he commit to the fray .
this was the first tarzan film to make extensive use of singing and dancing . it features a musical score by the brilliant film composer , dimitri tiomkin .
tarzan escapes ( 1936 ) . a hunter captures tarzan and wants to take him to london as an exhibit . by the time this one was filmed , hollywood ' s production code had gotten stiffer and o ' sullivan was ordered to coverup .
now tarzan make war !
shouts weissmuller as he lunges forward , knife in hand . we ' re told that wartime audiences whooped in approval when their fantasy hero tarzan discarded his isolationist instincts to strike back against the nazi invaders . tarzan triumphs is trim and violent . . . and gave wartime audiences the exact escapist thrills they craved .
1945 tarzan and the amazons ( 76 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . brenda joyce . johnny sheffield . jane returns , but she isn ' t miss o ' sullivan . an archaeological team arrives in search of the lost amazon city of palmeria . tarzan refuses to help them , but they trick boy into helping them and go on anyway . tarzan saves both the city ' s relics and boy in the nick of time .
a letter from jane , who is nursing british troops , asks tarzan ' s help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants . tarzan and boy set out across the desert looking for the . . . see full summary »
the rko library is full of restoration surprises , in that plenty of pictures that by rights should be printed to death can be made to look fine , while some minor productions have problems . the first four titles in this set look very good and are obviously from prime elements . tarzan and the huntress and tarzan and the mermaids take a sudden downturn in quality , as if the only materials available were dupes two or three generations removed . one possible explanation is that some or all of these films were redistributed by other companies after the 1958 demise of rko ; perhaps the original negatives of those two titles were damaged , or simply lost . parts of huntress are a little contrasty and washed out , and the tracks don ' t sound quite as clean . the quality dip is only apparent because the other four titles look so good . savant wasn ' t seriously bothered , but hardcore tarzan fans may have a different attitude .
cheetah , the chimpanzee who plays tarzan ' s simian sidekick in this and many another tarzan movie , lived to the ripe old age of 79 ( the same age as johnny weissmuller was when he died ) . in addition to his recurring role in tarzan pictures , cheetah also
moonlighted
as kimbbo the chimp in several of monogram ' s bomba films .
tarzan thus becomes the protector of the wild . kids must have roared with approval when he and boy and wreak havoc with the safari , like good little terrorists . they swipe the hunters ' guns , free the trapped animals and break a few necks here and there . when push comes to shove , an elephant stampede settles the dispute , kicking villains off cliffs and turning a few into jungle pancakes . oh , the fantasy part comes when the usurper gets his just desserts and an appropriate & benign sovereign is returned to the throne . we wonder why tarzan doesn ' t just unite all the tribes , secret societies and hidden cities of amazons together into a federation of tarzanian principalities ( ftp ) , and tell the europeans and yankees to go blow their noses .
tarzan ' s new york adventure ( 1942 ) . one of the most enjoyable films of the series . animal trappers take boy to new york with tarzan and jane in hot pursuit . there are many humorous scenes of the ape man trying to cope with life in the big apple .
1946 tarzan and the leopard woman ( 72 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . brenda joyce . johnny sheffield . trader caravans are being ambushed by an evil leopard cult . their leader is the beautiful , but deadly , priestess lea . her twisted little brother is sent to spy on tarzan and his family . . . providing the perfect foil for boy . tarzan rescues four teachers , boy , and jane from the cult in a crashing finish .
this is a fantastic adventure film ! weissmuller is easily the best known of the movie tarzan ' s and does a great job ( even if tarzan isn ' t portrayed as the intelligent guy he is in the books ) . what can i say about maureen o ' sullivan ? she is jane ; intelligent , sexy and quite capable of taking care of herself ( until she meets tarzan ) . . .
a group of archaeologists asks tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women . he refuses , but boy is tricked into doing the job . the queen of the women asks tarzan to help them .
tarzan the ape man ( 1932 ) is the first feature - length talking ( sound ) version of the tarzan series . the tarzan saga was based upon the original ' lord of the jungle ' characters created by novelist edgar rice burroughs . the tar - zan character ( called various titles through the years , including john clayton , lord bloomstoke ( greystoke ) ) , first appeared in late 1912 in all - story magazine .
1943 tarzan triumphs ( 78 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . frances gifford . johnny sheffield . tarzan battles the nazis as they try to enslave the hidden city of palandria . jane has returned to london to be with her sick mother , but boy manages to get captured .
now tarzan make war !
declares tarzan before he begins to pick off the germans one by one .
later , a safari arrives looking for the lost plane . the safari , jane and boy manage to get captured by ( you guessed it ) hostile natives and , after a breathtaking escape by boy , are rescued by tarzan and his elephant friends .
mad love ( 1935 ) ~ lost horizon ( 1937 ) ~ mr . smith goes to washington ( 1939 ) ~ the corsican brothers ( 1941 ) ~ the bridge of san luis rey ( 1944 ) ~ it ' s a wonderful life ( 1946 ) ( rejected by capra and not heard until the late ' 80s ) ~ tarzan and the mermaids ( 1948 ) ( suite 4 : 30 ) ~ high noon ( 1952 ~ the high and the mighty ( 1954 ) ~ giant ( 1956 ) ~ the alamo ( 1960 ) ~ the guns of navarone ( 1961 ) ~ town without pity ( 1961 ) ~ 55 days at peking ( 1963 )
“there is no ‘me tarzan , you jane’ situation , ” laughs robbie . she describes her character as “fiercely independent and incredibly capable . there is actually a line in the film where tarzan says ‘scream for me’ and jane is like , ‘what ? like a damsel ? ’ and i spit in his face . ”
johnny weissmuller . maureen o ' sullivan . now we ' re talking ! jane tags along with her father and his partner as they safari in search of the mysterious elephant graveyard . once they are deep in the jungle , tarzan
discovers
jane and promptly kidnaps her . they , quickly , fall in love and then the action begins . the safari is captured by a tribe of pygmies and tarzan must rescue them - with the help of his friends , the elephants .
1942 tarzan ' s new york adventure ( 71 minutes - video , vcd , dvd ) johnny weissmuller . maureen o ' sullivan . johnny sheffield . believing tarzan and jane are dead , boy is kidnapped / taken to new york city , where he is put to work in a circus . tarzan and jane track him down and must fight for his custody in court . that doesn ' t go well so tarzan takes it upon himself ( with the help of the elephants ) to get boy back .
1939 tarzan finds a son ( 90 minutes - video , vcd , dvd ) johnny weissmuller . maureen o ' sullivan . johnny sheffield . a small plane crashes in the jungle , its only survivor a baby boy . the baby is rescued by cheetah and taken to tarzan ' s home . he and jane raise the child as their own and name him boy .
this film introduced the chimpanzee chetah , and provided the weissmuller yodel yell ( produced by mgm ' s sound department ) , although the ape - call originated in a 1929 part - talkie serial ( starring frank merrill ) . it also marked the first of six tarzan movies starring both johnny weissmuller and irish - born actress maureen o ' sullivan ( between 1932 and 1942 ) . they are universally acknowledged as the most loved and famous of the many tarzan characters . their series of six films included the following :
an expedition seeking to bring jane back to civilization , and tarzan into captivity , gets more than it ' s bargained for .
the kids are of course waiting for the big action to commence , and tarzan triumphs has the typical escape scenes ( a helpful chimpanzee is a must ) followed by a full - scale revolt and battle . tarzan knocks over a storm trooper and gives his machine pistol to a palandrian , shouting
shoot nahzees !
the fact that they are nazis allows a higher degree of sadism than expected , as noted when tarzan cooly tricks the main baddie into falling into a lion pit . agonized screams are provided for the amusement of all .
you’d think with hanging out with tarzan some jungle smarts would rub off on you .
ivory poachers , headed by lyra the she - devil , vargo and fidel , capture a native tribe to carry their loot . tarzan intervenes and is captured . jane is also captured and believed killed , so . . . see full summary »
, and he also moved the production to mexico giving the film a very latin american feel .
much more interesting is young miscreant kimba ' s deceitful trickery in tarzan ' s home . all tears and whining , he ' s really waiting for the right moment to cut out jane ' s heart . jane and tarzan are pretty amusing as they ignore kimba ' s repeated sneaky looks and duplicitous actions . young tommy cook also played the young john garfield in humoresque the same year .
that feisty spirit is in evidence as i chat to the 25 - year - old in a cream and peach suite at the beverly hills hotel , where we are meeting to discuss her latest film , the legend of tarzan . all smiles and enthusiasm , robbie bounds over to the sofa , leaps onto the cushions and wraps her arms around her knees .
in her latest project , the legend of tarzan , robbie plays a very different version of jane than the stereotypical “damsel in distress” depiction . engrossing and exciting , the film thankfully avoids tired , sexist hollywood clichés .
tarzan returns to the mgm formula for an episode dealing with cruel animal poachers , and ends up providing an almost literal analogy for the ' new ' politics of the third world . after all the hot - cha girl - watching to be found in the last two installments , the only female action to be found is cheta repeatedly stealing the purse and compact of the bad lady animal hunter .
the patented tarzan thrills are all here , and chances are that many kids didn ' t notice much of a difference in the shows . the signature yell is gone , along with the ' jungle rhythm ' main title , but those mgm touches were getting old along with the constant vine - swinging and animal battles . the rko series has vines but tarzan doesn ' t use them for cross - country jaunts , just for the occasional swoop or two .
johnny weissmuller ' s last tarzan film is a pretty mundane adventure with a lot of padded scenes and unneccesary songs . johnny himself had gotten pretty hefty and doesn ' t look too convincing as the king of the jungle . brenda joyce is as lovely as ever , sporting her sexy two piece outfit again . newcomer linda christian is also nice to look at . the film doesn ' t pick up steam until the climax when tarzan makes a spectacular cliff dive and saves jane and co . from death at the hands of the phony god . strictly of interest as a curio of weissmuller ' s last go round as tarzan .
on a beautiful and remote island , the beautiful maiden mara has been promised in marriage to their god . she escapes however and eventually makes her way deep into the jungle . there she is found by tarzan who takes him home to jane and cheetah . boy is away studying in england . mara is afraid her people will come after her and they eventually find her and forcibly return her to her home where their high priest is intent on marrying her to their god . tarzan comes to the rescue .
back in nyaga the commissioner consults with the local pearl expert who unfortunately just happens to be varga . realizing things must be going bad back in aquatania varga and his goons rush back , sneak in and retrieve the balu costume , and through palanth , orders that the intruders be killed . tarzan is able to fight his way passed a large octopus , sneaks up behind varga to rip - off the mask and to give us one of the biggest anti - climactic endings in the franchise’s history . once their god is revealed to be just a man the aquatigan’s turn on palanth , tearing him apart , and then tarzan punches out varga , sending the villain to his deaths on the rocks below .
1943 tarzan ' s desert mystery ( 70 minutes - dvd ) johnny weissmuller . nancy kelly . johnny sheffield . jane sends a request for tarzan ' s fever medicine to aide allied soldiers who have contracted jungle fever . tarzan and boy journey across a great desert to retrieve the vines needed for the medicine . they get mixed up in a spy plot involving an arab prince , a wild stallion , and a beautiful american performer .
tarzan finds a son ( 1939 ) . this film introduced johnny sheffield as
boy ,
whom tarzan rescues from a plane wreck and eventually adopts . five years later a search party arrives in the jungle to look for boy with the intention of eliminating him . sheffield remained with the series until the late 1940s , then became bomba the jungle boy for monogram pictures .
1934 tarzan and his mate ( 93 minutes - video w / extended footage , vcd , dvd ) johnny weissmuller . maureen o ' sullivan . after barely surviving the first time around , holt decides to return to the elephant graveyard . he and his partner are hoping tarzan will help them , but when he refuses they go it alone .
tarzan finally gets involved when the action is over . the movie doesn ' t go soft on the violence . several amazons are shot dead while perforating the retreating raiders with well - aimed arrows . boy is sentenced to die at noon , and learns a lesson in doing what dad says without asking questions . in triumphs tarzan watched the head nazi being torn to bits , with the identical observation the victim had made earlier :
in the jungle , the strong win .
here tarzan comes up against the worst of the gold thieves , and allows them to sink into a quagmire without lifting a finger . by returning a couple of sacred gold objects to palmeria , tarzan somehow squares accounts with the queen , even though her sacred treasure vault has been trashed and crucial icons dinged up . and we don ' t even get to see boy receive the whipping he deserves - - he ' s single - handedly brought on the deaths of at least a dozen people !
tarzan and his mate ( 1934 ) . it is considered by many as the best of the weismuller efforts . certainly the production is much smoother than the first entry and the music score is first - rate . this one is best - known for maureen o ' sullivan prancing around the jungle in a scanty costume . for voyeurs , the video version includes an underwater nude scene previously censored from the original theatrical release .
an african tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into africa . tarzan fights them when the cult first attacks a caravan and next . . . see full summary »
they soon find themselves surrounded by hostile natives and must fight for their lives . they don ' t do a very good job of it , but tarzan ( and the elephants ) arrive just in time to save jane .
the ' poison ' of profit is immediately felt in the tarzan household , where only tarzan and cheta are immune to the temptations of the outsiders . jane rather lamely sees no harm in the project :
the animals will be in nice , clean zoos !
( para . ) . as for boy , the little jerk steals two lion cubs from their ma and trades them for a & * # % flashlight . the movie makes a mother nature statement worthy of gorgo with one image of the lionness standing in silhouette , staring across the water where her cubs disappeared .
she adds , “it’s like the indiana jones or pirates of the caribbean films , an epic action - adventure , a crazy , beautiful world and the characters are real and raw . ”
amiably goofy
is a good way to describe tarzan and the mermaids , a barely digested omelet of mixed fantasy motifs . the annoyingly infantile benji ( not a dog ) gives forth with instant ballads , like sir lancelot of i walked with a zombie , only this is africa , not the west indies . george zucco struts his stuff on what appears to be an authentic aztec pyramid instead of an egyptian fake , and there ' s not a tana leaf in sight . beautiful young linda christian joins other mexican cast members in replaying a quickie version of bird of paradise minus the volcano . balu is a fairly impressive quasi - aztec deity ( and not a singing bear ) .
johnny weissmuller ' s tenure as a big screen tarzan , first for mgm and then at rko , lasted seventeen years and a dozen feature films and cost him three wives ( the second ,
mexican spitfire
lupe velez ) . when the former olympic gold medal swimmer reported for duty in acapulco to film
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this last weissmuller tarzan movie is unlike all the previous movies , it has a lot of singing done by a guy named benji that is rather corny . it also is filmed in mexico and uses many of the locals as the aquatanians , you will see diving from the cliffs of acapulco and temple ruins used . one thing to watch for is the cliff dive that tarzan does , in real life a stunt double did that and lost his life in the filming . another curious thing is tarzan wears sandals in parts of this movie , sometimes they are on and sometimes missing ! there is also a fight with an octopus . you will also notice cheetah is much smaller that earlier monkeys used . for tarzan fans this one is worth a look but if it probably the weakest of the 12 movies that weissmuller did . i think they should have titled this movie tarzan takes a vacation in mexico as that is how it appears .
the prisoners are taken before palanth but before they can be sentenced to death balu strides in , much to palanth’s surprise as varga was off running the nyaga trading post end of the operation and so couldn’t possibly be in the costume . much to palanth’s consternation balu and indicates that the prisoners should all be set free , including mara . palanth learns that it was tarzan posing as the god and confronts the ape man , “ if my people knew anyone posed as balu , they would destroy him . ” tarzan counters with , “if people know balu a man , they destroy you . ” check and mate . it’s great when the series remembers that tarzan is a smart and canny foe and not one to be screwed with . as often is the case in this series just when my faith is restored in the character something monumentally stupid will happen . in this case it’s the idiotic decision for everyone to stay in aquatania for partying and aquatic sporting events . have none of these bozos heard the term “ getting out when the getting’s good . ” neither the villains nor the heroes have any sense of when it’s best to cut and run .
tarzan triumphs might have been called
tarzan versus the swastika
, as it boils down to a grade - school primer on nazi villainy . the paratroops move in and betray the kindness of their hosts by enslaving all of palandria . the leering commander ( stanley ridges is always good ) offers to allow zandra to be his ' companion ' but she begs off .
“they needed a girl and he said , ‘come and audition . ’” robbie got the part , went on to appear in a series of unpaid commercials and “one thing led to another” .
johnny weissmuller ' s last tarzan film is a pretty mundane adventure with a lot of padded scenes and unneccesary songs . johnny himself had gotten . . .
a year later she beat the likes of olivia wilde , amber heard and jessica biel to the role of naomi lapaglia , the wife of leonardo dicaprio’s avaricious banker jordan belfort in the wolf of wall street . rave reviews followed and robbie suddenly found herself in the same league as jennifer lawrence and emma stone .
warners ' the tarzan collection starring johnny weissmuller , vol . 2 moves on to tarzan ' s rko years , when his waistline expands and his face looks chubby . the six films here represented are usually considered inferior to the earlier mgm efforts , but they have their own charm ; they tend to be shorter and introduce always - welcome external elements like rampaging nazis , a prehistoric monster or two , strange lost cities and plenty of va - voom 40s jungle princesses . in fact , the titles of the last four installments feature tropical - type sirens . tarzan trades monosyllabic niceties with these temptresses and even swims with one of them , but his heart remains with jane .
we get our first glimpse of the infamous tarzan treehouse . jane is wearing more clothing this time around but she is still breathtaking .
boy is away at school in england . the high priest is trying to force a young girl to marry an evil pearl trader posing as the god balu . she escapes , is recaptured and is finally rescued by tarzan and jane who reunite her with her chosen fiance .
right - there ' s a movie to be reviewed here . aquanetta is only a cog in the works of a plot that looks to be lifted from the story of captain sleeman ' s uncovering of the kali cult in india , as portrayed in the stranglers of bombay and the pierce brosnan period adventure film the deceivers . the leopard men prey on caravans , bringing home the booty to their corrupt cult leaders . the killers ' little scheme is thwarted by the usual tarzan - boy - cheta combination , with cheta using a knife to cut tarzan ' s bonds right during the concluding death ceremony .
at west point , 1857 , in the conceit of wally kline and . . .
benji ( john laurenz ) is the local postman and jane ( brenday . . .
aside from a fun octopus fight this last weissmuller tarzan film was a bit of a disappointment , and a sad note to end his twelve picture run on .
tarzan battles a giant spider that has to be seen to be believed . . . . . . .
in accordance with his wishes , a recording of weissmuller ' s famous tarzan cry was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground .
tarzan and the leopard woman begins on an unpromising note , with tarzan and family on a shopping trip in a local arab town . . . tarzan ' s remote escarpment seems to be only a day or so away from the edge of the sahara desert . the british overseers of the territory ( it ' s assumed that africa rightly belongs to the brits ) are spreading their sphere of influence to a more remote principality , and we ' re shown an english school with four ( gorgeous ) young teachers preparing to help the natives become proper english subjects . happily , the episode soon turns into a giddy tale of a feral death - cult run by an honest to - ayesha jungle queen , played by the gorgeous aquanetta . i can see older males pushing kids out of the way to get to the box office for this one !
as it ' s if tarzan , jane and boy aren ' t incredible enough , this film forces us to believe that tarzan has moved somewhat closer to sea level in this last sequel to the tarzan series of films . a new cast member , benji , the calypso singing mailman has arrived along with the aquatanians , a tribe of south pacific like people who believe in
balu
the god that comes alive whenever possible . what more is there to say ? it ' s unbelievable from start to finish !
most people view the tarzan johnny weissmuller played as accidental comedic . . lacking personality . . bland . 9 movies as the character in 16 years . . not . . .
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the film is also romantic , but with a twist . “tarzan and jane are a team , ” says robbie . “she wants him , but doesn’t need him . jane can take care of herself and is constantly getting out of danger on her own . ”
on their way to greet jane ( brenda joyce ) on her return from england , tarzan and boy come to the aid of athena ( shirley o ' hara ) and return her to the forbidden , top secret , beware - the - dogs mountaintop city of palmeria . jane ' s archaeologist friend sir guy henderson ( henry stephenson ) finds a gold wristlet that cheta has palmed and his expedition heads for tarzan ' s camp to convince him to lead them to palmeria . tarzan has pledged the amazon queen ( mme . maria ouspenskaya ) to stay mum and refuses , but boy gets it into his head to defy his dad . taken prisoner by the amazons , the explorers talk themselves out of a death sentence but are confined to life imprisonment . when boy asks athena to help them escape , ballister ( barton maclane ) , the rough leader of the group , goes ballistic and loots the amazon ' s golden riches .
tarzan the ape man - - as created by edgar rice burroughs - - had been educated at one of the finest universities in the world and spoke perfect english . there was none of that
me tarzan , you jane
stuff . but hollywood never could resist putting its own stamp on a character . so when former olympic swimmer johnny weissmuller was hired by mgm to play tarzan in its 1932 film , the scriptwriters made him into a heroic oaf . much to burrough ' s chagrin , the public loved mgm ' s version . it was one of the biggest hits of that year . you can see that one and others thanks to mgm / ua .
nancy kelly heads back to civilization with all the jungle medicine jane needs , and tarzan has made a new friend . on the other hand , i ' d really like to see a london post - script scene in which connie delivers the goods to jane . . . jane ' s never had the problem of a female competitor ( where is that wedding ring , jane - o ? ) and these rko pictures would seem to tempt tarzan with plenty of enticing jungle man - bait .
there are no serious complaints though . “look , it’s all part and parcel of the job , and there are downsides to everything , ” she adds .
eventually the aquatigan task force catches up to mara , and after a brief struggle she is captured and taken back to aquatania . tarzan is able to track the abductors all the way back to aquatania , and after a little snooping around has figured out the whole “ false god ” con going on . meanwhile benji returns to the treehouse with the british inspector - general ( matthew boulton ) and then when tiko shows up they all decide to head to aquatania . so jane , a calypso singer , an inspector , and a love sick aquatigan , all completely unarmed , make their way to aquatania where they are immediately captured .
tarzan and jane befriend mara who then gives jane a large flawless black pearl worth a small fortune , but our heroes do not like to except gifts so they decide it’d be best to have the pearl taken to commissioner ( edward ashley ) in nyaga , where it could be used to fund the construction of a school or hospital . the person given the job of delivering the pearl to nyaga is benji ( john laurenz ) , a latin american singing postal carrier who had brought a message to jane and tarzan from boy who are told is getting schooled back in england . the calypso singing lothario benji character is one of the big tip - offs that this film was shot mostly in mexico as he and most of the cast are latin american , and the terrain looks nothing like africa .
they forge ahead on their journey even though the uneasy natives must be whipped to proceed . they follow the tracks of an elephant herd to the edge of a wide river . there , after building two rafts , in an exciting scene , they cross the hippo - infested river . the herd of hippos capsizes one of the rafts , causing the deaths of two of the men by crocodiles . as they are threatened by the large animals - which follow them up the other side of the river bank - they hear the strange jungle cry twice more , and the hippos appear to back off and return to the river in obedience to the sound .
the tarzan collection vol . 2 gives edgar rice burroughs and johnny weissmuller fans the rko releases they want , yet is as plain - wrap a presentation that i ' ve seen from warners so far . the quick menus simply lead to the features , chapter selections and choice of subtitles , a satisfactory arrangement for those of us that don ' t need another clip - show featurette .
the story follows tarzan , who was raised in the african jungle but is now living in victorian london as john clayton ( lord greystoke ) with his wife , jane . john is sent on a trade mission back into the congo and becomes embroiled in a deadly revenge plot . robbie took the role “because it was very different from the other stuff i’ve done” .
once again , tarzan ' s africa seems to be populated with every kind of human except blacks ; these generic natives are similar to those shown in fantasies about southeast asia or the pacific isles - - dark , but not of african descent . i wonder what happened to all those bloodthirsty tribes of maniac savages that shot people full of arrows and hacked them to bits back in tarzan and his mate ?
the quintessential adventure film tells the exciting story of a difficult african trek to the fabled elephants ' burial grounds , where vast amounts of valuable ivory tusks are thought to be located . traders are exploring and searching for the unexplored burial place beyond the mutia escarpment - a mysterious , wall - like barrier of mountains . there are superstitious beliefs among the natives that the escarpment is sacred and anyone who looks or ventures beyond the escarpment faces death by the
witchmen of the tribe .
while the group is preparing to set up camp , they notice a jungle - yelling , vine - swinging , illiterate ( unspeaking and mono - syllabic ) , loin - clothed , but gentle , childlike , and protective ape man - tarzan ( johnny weissmuller ) . when distracted by savage pygmies , jane is suddenly kidnapped by tarzan - he whisks her away , carrying her back to his tree home among a group of apes . she screams and kicks as he carries her into the treetops . she is terrified of the heights , begging him :
hold on to me .
when one of the giant apes approaches , tarzan clearly doesn ' t understand her words as she screams hysterically :
oh , he ' s coming at me ! oh , don ' t let him take me ,
but tarzan protects her . she meets the chimp chetah for the first time - in a gesture of friendliness , he puts his arm on her shoulder . they are both curious about what she is wearing , until they are threatened by a leopard from below . tarzan leaps on the threatening animal and kills it .
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with jane still away , tarzan goes off on a rather clever change - of - pace adventure . this time the babe along for the ride is nancy kelly , future mother of the evil rhoda in the bad seed . the story offers an interesting new locale , an inventive story , and some welcome gruesome thrills . new to the series is associate producer kurt neumann ( the fly , kronos ) , who would direct three subsequent entries .
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interestingly , while her co - star alexander skarsgård ( who plays tarzan ) is semi - naked for half the film , robbie gets to keep her clothes on .
filmed in mexico ( mainly acapulco ) with an ambitious music score by dimitri tiomkin , this is less of a jungle adventure than most tarzan films as water and swimming sequences dominate . the spectacular scenery is the film ' s main asset as the story is a slow - moving affair in which tarzan helps a native girl ( linda christian ) from being forced into marriage to a phoney island god . the highlight is a breathtaking sequence of cliff diving , during the shooting of which johnny weissmuller ' s double , angel garcia , was killed . this was weissmuller ' s 12th and last screen portrayal of tarzan although he was to return to serial heroics as comic - strip character jungle jim soon after .
after tarzan carries her and swings her to another part of the treetops , he grabs her again and she screams repeatedly :
let me go ,
but she cannot escape his powerful grasp . when she is finally released , jane sleeps in tarzan ' s tree house / home for the night . he has provided her with a leopard skin to sleep on and made a screen around her with vines . next to her covered home , he stretches out on a large tree bough to sleep . when he awakens the next morning , he grabs her again , and she screams hysterically , but she falls into tarzan ' s arms for protection when the giant ape threatens one more time . she thanks him with a simple :
thank you . . . thank you for protecting me .
a beautiful , young girl becomes caught in tarzan ' s net while he is fishing . she is mara , who has fled from the pearl - fishing village of aquatania to escape marriage to palanth , who poses as the living - god , balu . balu ' s henchmen recapture mara and return her to balu ' s temple on taboo island . tarzan follows in an effort to rescue her .
“we were one of those families whose doors were always open and there was constantly someone walking in and out , ” she says .
a satisfying development would be to have boy prove his mettle by going mano - a - mano with kimba while tarzan takes on the rest of the leopard cult , but the movie doesn ' t work out that way . it ' s certainly exciting and violent , although we miss not having a scene of the evil lea trying out her wiles on our loin - clothed hero . . . in the later hercules movies it was always , uh , stimulating to see glamorous dishes like gianna marie canale and sylvia lopez salivate over the musclebound steve reeves . tarzan ' s relationship with jane here isn ' t all that exciting !