Simba: King of the Beasts (1928)

Original title

Simba: The King of the Beasts

Directed by

Martin Johnson

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent documentary follows a married couple on a four year expedition in Kenya. They track lions across the veld in order to observe the animals in their natural habitat.

observationalatmosphericstatelyearnestarchivalquietmethodicalnaturalistic

What happens

Simba: The King of the Beasts is a 1928 American black-and-white sound documentary film, directed by Martin and Osa Johnson, which features the couple's four-year expedition to track the lion across Kenyan veld to his lair. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film, which went on nationwide general release on January 25, 1928 (1928-01-25), was premiered at the Earl Carroll Theatre in New York on January 23, 1928 (1928-01-23). The film entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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