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The Jungle-style Thread - Pop Culture Iconography of the Dark Continent |
JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
|  Posted: 2013-01-18 01:08 am Permalink
Rarotonga was technically Melanesian but she vibes more Pam Grier to me !!
(image courtesy of Zeta)
I must find this movie !!
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-01-21 12:11 am Permalink
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-02-03 07:45 am Permalink
I love the movie serials of the 1930's and 1940's. I recently spend the last several weeks grinding my way through this one…
The plot revolves around Nazi agents scheming to control an African tribe as a way of expanding their domination into the Europe prior to WWII. If anyone thinks "Indiana Jones" was an original concept, they should watch this B-grade series.
As with all Jungle pictures of that era, no attempt was made to provide any cultural authenticity. It's a wild mix of African "natives" speaking with Californian speech cadences, stone temples with Mayan designs, crumbling Asian idols, exploding volcanoes, magic swords, and a mystical indigenous Jungle Queen who is whiter than white.
No Tikis though. 
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lucas vigor
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From: SOCAL
| Posted: 2013-02-03 4:44 pm Permalink
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On 2013-02-03 07:45, JOHN-O wrote:
As with all Jungle pictures of that era, no attempt was made to provide any cultural authenticity. It's a wild mix of African "natives" speaking with Californian speech cadences, stone temples with Mayan designs, crumbling Asian idols, exploding volcanoes, magic swords, and a mystical indigenous Jungle Queen who is whiter than white.
No Tikis though.
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still way cool, though! Seems to have all the elements we associate with exotica!
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-02-07 7:06 pm Permalink
INGAGI... another movie I really want to see, alas it's a lost film.
Probably one of the loopiest pre-code flicks, this 1930 Jungle picture claimed to show a ritual where African women were sacrificed to be brides of gorillas. The lurid premise and featured nudity were justified on the basis that it was an actual documentary.
The public bought the hoax !!
  
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-02-14 6:49 pm Permalink
Is there any better example of the common Zeitgeist between Jungle-style and Tiki-style than Adventureland ??
Or maybe that's been discussed already.
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Pele Paul
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From: San Dimas, ca
| Posted: 2013-05-28 3:25 pm Permalink
cool, finally a thread I can get into!!
my backyard is full on Jungle cruise inspired!!
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Pele Paul
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| Posted: 2013-05-28 3:30 pm Permalink
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TheBigT
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From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2013-07-19 11:27 am Permalink
Just ran across this last night. A pc from the Congo Jungle nightclub in Houston, TX that I hadn't seen before! Thank you Boston Public Library! Bigbro, I have an email coming your way. 
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White Devil
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Posts: 0 | Posted: 2013-12-15 07:53 am Permalink
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martian-tiki
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Posts: 369 | Posted: 2013-12-31 10:53 pm Permalink
https://archive.org/details/jungle_stories_spring_1954_sheena_story_sword_of_gimshai
Sheena Queen of the Jungle story
the Sword of Gimshai
Jungle Stories Spring 1954
I'm confident the are many other wonders to be found in archive.org's ebooks/pulp section.
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White Devil
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Posts: 0 | Posted: 2014-01-01 06:42 am Permalink
While researching jungle girl movies, I repeatedly encountered references to Jungle Film magazine. Turns out it was published from 1960 to 1968 in French, and was a fumetti comic which presented old jungle movies, mostly Bomba and Weissmuller flicks. Some repetition occurs because of reprints...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is an excellent history of that magazine: http://bmania.pagesperso-orange.fr/Junglefilm0.htm
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