Der Elefantenjunge (1937)
9KDer Elefantenjunge: Directed by Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda. With Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes. This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling’s “Toomai, of the Elephants
“In India, an elephant boy (Sabu) wants to become a great man like his father and helps a British colonial conservationist (Walter Hudd) find and herd elephants.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA film project that began with producer Alexander Korda sending the great documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty to the Mysore region of India to film for an Empire project. The result was 55 hours of geographic documentary footage, but no discernible narrative. Zoltan Korda took over, brought the production back to England and filmed a narrative around Rudyard Kiplingu0026#39;s story, u0026#39;Toomei of the Elephantsu0026#39;. Much of Flahertyu0026#39;s footage is used in the film, but incongruously also sits beside some poor obvious fake elephant feet as in the u0026#39;Dance of the elephantsu0026#39; sequence. Nevertheless, both as a docudrama and a narrative film it comes off surprisingly well. One of Flahertyu0026#39;s other contributions was the discovery of Sabu who became a star after this film.”
