Feel the danger and beauty of Africa through the lens of the first safaris ever to be captured on film. Experience lost cultures and classic adventures with footage shot on-location by expert safari filmmakers. Complete the most interesting and unique safari experience you can find with two of Hollywood's finest early films.
DVD 1: Simba (1927)
Simba creates a remarkable portrait and an invaluable record of lost cultures through encounters with the peoples of Kenya and Tanzania. The DVD soundtrack features live music performed at The Kansas Silent Film Festival showing of the film in 2004. RUN TIME: 87 MINUTES
DVD 2: Congorilla (1932)
The first sound movie made entirely in Africa, Congorilla premiered in 1932 and permitted audiences to hear what they had only been able to see during previous safari films. RUN TIME: 67 MINUTES
DVD 3: Baboona (1935)
The 1935 Morro Films, shot by Martin and Osa Johnson, recount the 60,000 mile "Flying Safari" undertaken by the filmmakers as they flew their two amphibian airplanes (the zebra-striped Osa s Ark and the giraffe-spotted Spirit of Africa) from Capetown, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. RUN TIME: 73 MINUTES
DVD 4: I Married Adventure (1940)
A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, I Married Adventure stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name. Osa portrays herself in studio-produced scenes which bridge the transition between actual documentary footage segments as the film recounts the Johnsons' nine world expeditions to Africa, Borneo, and the South Seas. RUN TIME: 77 MINUTES
DVD 5: Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
In Ernest Hemingway s Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gregory Peck plays F. Scott Fitzgerald on safari in the African mountains with his lady friend played by Susan Hayward. Fitzgerald is seriously wounded while hunting and in the few hours he has left, he reflects upon a life he believes has been wasted in pursuit of money, instead of spent contributing to the greater good. RUN TIME: 117 MINUTES
DVD 6: King Solomon s Mine (1937)
The plot of this classic film gets under way when Anna Lee organizes an expedition to locate her father, legendary explorer Quartermaine, who has disappeared in the wilds of Africa while searching for King Solomon s Mines, a fabled diamond repository. RUN TIME: 80 MINUTES
Contains some African tribal nudity and graphic cultural images.
