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Animal Encounters: Apes and Lions

By moviejourneys On August 8, 2015 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

The movie folklore of animals in Africa is very different from what would be heard around the fires of traditional African people. One area of convergence, however, is in stories of lions on the Serengeti. Most of these films are about apes, fueled by evolutionary irony, and there are a few about lions. As it became [...]

Movies and the Human Journey

By moviejourneys On February 16, 2014 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

Hollywood has done a poor job at bringing us moving pictures of the beginnings of the human journey many millions of years ago. It has been left to the realm of television documentaries to do this job or to the ape fantasy films, designed to make us wonder in the darkest parts of our brains [...]

King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

By moviejourneys On February 9, 2014 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

This is a movie I remember from childhood. It may have been the first big-screen color adventure I ever saw unless it was Samson and Delilah (1949). Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr lead the cast on safari in Africa of 1897. They are in search of the lost diamond mines of the biblical King Solomon. For [...]

Movies: Great White Hunters of Africa

By moviejourneys On February 8, 2014 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

In the 19th century, a flourishing tourism industry developed in service to European hunters who wished to come and shoot down African creatures without restrictions. Movies about this time feature the cream of Great White Hunters: Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, and Charlton Heston. The Hollywood prototype for these films was Trader Horn. Trader Horn (1931) Among [...]

Killing the Lion: African Tribal Movies

By moviejourneys On February 8, 2014 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

From the time of the emergence of today’s mammals, after the disappearance of the dinosaurs, the lion has reigned as monarch over the Serengeti. In the centuries before the coming of the white recreational hunters, the only natural predators feared by the lions were Masai warriors. For the Masai, the ritual attainment of manhood was [...]

Lion King (1994) – Disney

By moviejourneys On January 28, 2014 · Add Comment · In Africa, Serengeti

Conceived by Jeffrey Katzenberg and drawn from his own coming of age experience (Wiki). I heard it said in 2010 that this was the largest-selling animated film of all time. There was dissension among the Disney staffers on the decision to turn this project into a musical. Songs were added to the movie, and the [...]

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Animal Encounters: Apes and Lions

Movies and the Human Journey

King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

Movies: Great White Hunters of Africa

Killing the Lion: African Tribal Movies

Lion King (1994) – Disney

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