BEYOND BENGAL

Year Published: 1934

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This 1934 semi-documentary film "Beyond Bengal" was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. In this second part of the film, expedition member and scientist Joan Baldwin gets sick, so they have to take a shortcut through a crocodile infested river. Expedition members attempt to clear the river first with many shots of people fighting crocodiles with spears and guns. They end up crossing the river successfully with their elephants and make it back to a village.

0:17 herd of wild elephants in a swamp, 0:50 expedition members in boats trying to break up the herd of elephants, 1:06 different shots of elephants in the swamp including a white one, 2:39 expedition members on boats chasing elephants, 3:18 elephant takes down a boat, 3:46 hunters shoot and try to stab elephant with spears, 4:19 expedition crew falls off boat and elephant takes down boat, 4:57 expedition continues through the jungle, 5:32 a herd of “Seladang” cows, 7:15 a dead Seladang cow, 7:56 two expedition members acting out a marriage ceremony and getting caught by Schenck, 9:15 Schenck examining Baldwin because she is sick, 11:28 a honey bear climbing a tree, 11:42 crocodiles on a riverbank, 12:22 honey bear swimming through the water and getting mauled by crocodiles, 13:26 expedition members begin using boats to tire out crocodiles, 14:03 two boats capsize and expedition members are chased by a crocodile, 15:05 expedition member gets attacked by a crocodile while others get chased, 15:58 hunter shoots at crocodile and brings the corpse of the killed expedition member onto the boat, 16:51 elephant train arrives at the river and prepares to cross, 18:32 Schenck speaking to different expedition members, 19:34 expedition members begin clearing the river of crocodiles with boats and spears, 20:51 two men pull out a crocodile that they hunted, 21:28 expedition members hunting crocodiles on boats, 25:06 a boat capsizes and crocodiles begin chasing the expedition members, 26:22 hunter kills crocodile with a gun and they pull up the body of one of the expedition members that was attacked, 26:56 Schenck giving first aid, 27:50 woman holds a dying man, 28:16 Schenck treating injured expedition members, 28:47 Schenck comes over to treat the dying man next to the woman, 29:40 close-ups of Schenck, 30:13 expedition members pick up the dying man and put him on top of an elephant, 31:04 elephant train begins crossing the river, 32:57 crocodiles begin approaching the elephants, 33:50 expedition members begin shooting at them and stabbing them with spears, 34:45 elephant train begins climbing out of the river, 35:13 a sick Baldwin lying down, 35:46 Schenck treating the extremely sick man who rough the alligator; he is shown recovering, 36:27 expedition members begin praying, 37:26 elephant train making its way back into a village, 38:51 “The End” as the narrator suggests that Ali and Bee are to be married.

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This 1934 semi-documentary film "Beyond Bengal" was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. Schenck's party hunts and kills monkeys, tigers, and leopards during their journey. They also encounter different types of snakes, including one that catches an expedition member. The film ends with them encountering a herd of wild elephants. While the film is meant to function almost like a documentary, many scenes are either staged or crudely fashioned with editing techniques, particularly those with tigers and leopards.

0:07 Showmen’s Pictures Inc. Presents “Beyond Bengal”, 0:22 Harry Schenck Production, 1:00 a map showing Southeast Asia, 2:24 a letter from the Sultan of Perak to Mr. Schenck, 3:08 Sultan Iskandar Shah, 3:18 Harry Schenck, 3:32 the Sultan meeting Schenck and Joan Baldwin, 4:28 different expedition members shown, 5:04 Schenck and Baldwin arrive at the starting point of the expedition and is introduced to different expedition members, 6:06 expedition leaves as a train of elephants, 7:17 an oxen drawn supply train, 7:50 oxen train crossing a river, 9:21 the main expedition train in a field, 10:08 different types of monkeys, 10:39 expedition members begin hunting a White Gibbon with spears, 12:14 monkeys swinging through the trees, 12:28 elephants clearing the jungle as the expedition continues, 13:06 bats sleeping in a tree, 13:22 a tiger, 13:36 a group of pythons, 14:28 a python in a tree hunting a monkey and strangling it to death, 15:49 expedition crew setting up camp in the jungle, 16:42 a baby elephant playing, 18:03 a man and woman flirting at the camp, 19:00 expedition members collecting King Cobras and putting them in a basket, 19:52 expedition member catching a python and presenting it to Schenck and Baldwin, 20:31 Baldwin and Schenck together and preparing weapons, 21:36 tigers and leopards moving as expedition members make their way through the jungle making noise, 23:10 expedition members kill a tiger, 23:41 tigers continue to run as people move through the jungle, 24:48 a python grabbing an expedition member and he shakes it off, 25:19 expedition member shoots a leopard, 25:39 tiger in the jungle, 26:05 hunters shoot various leopards, 27:05 a tiger chases exhibition members and is shot by hunters, 28:00 tiger knocks down a member of the camera crew, 28:33 expedition continues through the jungle, 28:58 a herd of wild elephants in wetlands

Part 2: https://youtu.be/dmWNQJSMc3Q

This 1934 semi-documentary film "Beyond Bengal" was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. Schenck's party hunts and kills monkeys, tigers, and leopards during their journey. They also encounter different types of snakes, including one that catches an expedition member. The film ends with them encountering a herd of wild elephants. While the film is meant to function almost like a documentary, many scenes are either staged or crudely fashioned with editing techniques, particularly those with tigers and leopards.

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This 1934 semi-documentary film "Beyond Bengal" was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. Schenck's party hunts and kills monkeys, tigers, and leopards during their journey. They also encounter different types of snakes, including one that catches an expedition member. The film ends with them encountering a herd of wild elephants. While the film is meant to function almost like a documentary, many scenes are either staged or crudely fashioned with editing techniques, particularly those with tigers and leopards.

Part 2: https://youtu.be/dmWNQJSMc3Q

This 1934 semi-documentary film "Beyond Bengal" was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. Schenck's party hunts and kills monkeys, tigers, and leopards during their journey. They also encounter different types of snakes, including one that catches an expedition member. The film ends with them encountering a herd of wild elephants. While the film is meant to function almost like a documentary, many scenes are either staged or crudely fashioned with editing techniques, particularly those with tigers and leopards.

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[Music] e [Applause] [Music] along the Gulf of San near the equator lies a narrow strip of land known as the melean peninsula pictorially it is the garden spot of the world but it is a garden over which Nature has placed a sign and that sign reads white man keep out so naturally the white man tries to get in exotic shrubs and Vines cling to one another with tenacious fingers to obstruct his way ferocious animals and slythering monsters that crawl upon their bellies the heat the fever the poisonous death that l in the bite of one mosquito all the defense with which the jungle arms herself to repel him are to the white man a challenge and an incentive he wants to unveil the secret that is so viciously safeguarded to photograph it and bring it back to his fellow men but the success of the white man depends upon the loyal cooperation of the natives and Mr skank dedicates this picture to his staff the melean and Siamese who were so faithful and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with him and who had the biggest share of the dangers this photoplay is authentic in its local and real in its action in its making we owed much to his the assistance and Aid given by His Highness the Sultan of perah s alang escandar sha rajia rasman and Siamese advisor Pat [Music] suum ladies and gentlemen you see before you a royal communication from His Highness to Mr [Music] skank [Music] His Highness Sultan of tah FMS Sarang escanda sha Mr Harry skink when after weeks of preparation we were ready to start upon our journey into the jungle His Highness the sultan graciously came out to wish us good luck for the first time in his life he consented to be photographed by a picture [Music] camera Miss Joan Baldwin a British scientist was going with us we thanked His Highness for his courtesy and cooperation which made our Expedition possible as it was he who supplied the elephants and Men His Highness warned us of the dangers of the melee jungles and then in his beautiful English bad us farewell and assured us of his full [Music] cooperation Captain Lindsay's British a at the Sultan's court and Aid DeCamp To His Highness introduced us to badre tambul who was in charge of our elephant train badre was a college breed boy who also acted as interpreter on our Expedition Captain ver was the last white man to bid us goodby with his encouraging Cheerio we felt ourselves deeply indebted to him for the aid he had given us in arranging the Expedition the little village of chuman qua these elephants and men were specially chosen Us by the sultan when we arrived at this jumping off place we found everything in Readiness for departure Ally a native boy was all smiles as he met his master for the first time you're made Madame this little Convent breed girl of beauty of her race answered to the name of be Beware with those eyes the servant problem solved badre then introduced us to our number one Gunner Captain nanc the best shot in the East our number one native we gave the word to start the hunt was on our train consisted of 50 of the best elephants in the country these animals are the passenger trains of the Jungle their burdens are all human ones our supplies and other necessities had been started on ahead in charge of Captain nany who was to meet us at the main Camp which was 4 weeks away slowly the train wed its way down the road leading to the Jungle defying the man-eating tiger the lordly wild elephant and the deadly python lying in its path we were going into a strange new world with strange new laws the main Wagon Train had started two weeks ahead of us and we're taking the round pout and safer route there were 64 carts and other conveyances in this train drawn by oxen and water buffalo the little fellows are oxen the long horns are the Buffalo this train followed the horsemen who were a considerable distance ahead of them the country here was comparatively tamed the wagons averaged 3 to 500 lb load just off this road the jungle starts the thorough Fair will happily be named a Highway to Hell here is the first River Crossing encountered by The Wagon Train the captain warned the drivers if the went too low in the water to take their heads up to the carts also to beware of crocodiles they said they had sent the ox carts over the safer route in order to get safer across the carts had to be lightened and each cart made four or five TRS across the river this could hardly be turned the very latest thing in fery booat we still insist it wasn't safe route but then maybe we're wrong well they made it after leaving Road the elephant train struck through the center of the jungle here's a jungle Scout ready to pry a warning while other busy started climbing to higher perches for better observation these monks were of the Shar variety and originated from the orang family this looks like one of those contented valleys one reads about in manys but there were no contented cows in this stretch of God [Music] country an ante eater with a lunch and date there's a peninsula deer this is not the statue of The [Music] Thinker [Music] hey White Gib that's too bad it looks like this baby will be sitting on a hand organ pretty [Music] soon look at him go Monkey Business just ahead this route was almost into to anything but elephants bats hundreds of them and covered with fleas oh no not our leading man but our first star more stars this is strictly a pre-prohibition picture a ton of pythons that never came out of a bottle crawling masses of galvanized muscle they're jungle's most ruthless killers they were ever present we never knew when they would attack the repulsive creatures swallow their victim's whole sometimes stretching their gaping Jaws to nine or 10 times their normal size they are the real jungle Terror a python out for a Kill just one of life's tragedies as they take place in the jungle and every monk in the vicinity knew that only a miracle could save him s we arrived at our main Camp to find that Captain Nancy had preceded us and as per schedule had everything ready for our reception we had been traveling for 2 weeks during which time we had been constantly fighting the malaria mosquitoes which are more dangerous to human life than the tiger or leopard this Camp was in the heart of the tiger country and it was necessary to be constantly on guard lest leopards tigers and Panthers devour our Bullocks and Chinese ponies H we're preparing for the big Drive which was to start the following day other native Hunters were kept busy supplying us with fresh meat this was no easy task as h hundreds of pounds were needed we from the time the trip began this baby elephant had never left its mother's side he was having a Dickens of a [Music] Time [Music] [Music] h HLA Ouiji here we go the last one ends a so and so maybe the water was a little too cold for his Oriental blood or possibly he just felt a little moded come on Ma give a fell push will you hey Ma gee ma you're a lot of help jungle or no jungle this fellow Dan Cupid manages to get around most everywhere boy and a girl she was saying no no no the still black mantle of the Jungle had spread itself dangerous things were creeping in the gloomy Shadows but they could not affect this boy and girl he was telling her of the cute little thatched cottage he would build for her these two young Souls brought together for the first time on this trip we're finding one another love was being [Music] [Music] born [Music] we had asked for some specimens of the deadly king cobra these natives said they would get us some and they did from tree to tree they went collecting this Choice assortment of concentrated homicide they had an uncanny control over these the deadliest of snakes a snake in the grass out here the size of a snake seemed to make no difference we were used to Hollywood snakes but this was the real thing notice that he will not allow the python to get a double turn on his hand Mr skank gave orders to keep the python but not in his tent wild beasts are not the only danger of the Jungle even hardened natives have fallen victims of the Fatal jungle fever its symptoms are somewhat like those of our influenza Miss baldon was the first to be taken ill and in the excitement we didn't realize her danger but she was too good a sport to give in during the previous night all the beaters had been sent out over a 5m spread ready for the signal to start the drive our cameras had been cleverly camouflaged behind screens of Shrubbery photographers had secured themselves to Platforms in high trees when the signal was given the 5 Mile Wide Circle of beaters started to converge toward our cameras every animal within the circle was driven toward us the hunt was on it was not a hunt to kill the Gunners were instructed to use their weapons only for the defense of themselves and cameramen with this sort of noise no wonder the animals were on the Move ah another of Our Stars [Music] [Music] step by step we made our way through to our other cameras [Music] [Music] be the boys after a real mankiller he had killed a native and was doomed to die it is the custom of the Jungle to spear any animal that has killed a hunter what a rug this fellow made but want and killing was not the object of the Expedition they did it simply to survive we followed our native beaters driving constantly driving who said a tiger won't climb a [Music] tree cameraman is up there but the cameraman didn't come it was too good a spot for [Applause] pictures there's a python he got a native and an inhuman struggle was on he could only break the whole the python had on the tree he would be safe he'll Shake him off there he goes he did [Music] [Applause] it these boys decided to move their camera to a better spot they were building a foliage screen for themselves but there's no protection against a spotted death like this we told you he was the best shot in the East look it's still breathing if you think you're a good shot the jungle is where you find out because if you miss you'll never live to T it we were watching a cameraman prepare to get a black panther there he is the most treacherous and hateful thing that lives while this was going on we kept advancing we would have liked to have directed this scene but nature handled it [Music] [Music] boy this is going to be good watch he had to do it that way the leopard was coming at him that's Happo [Music] he was going for the captain short range shot he made it again a Kill worthy of any trophy [Music] run the captain rushed to his friend's side but the man was badly clawed and injured and had to be removed to the rear for treatment we almost had to establish a hospital that day having heard that wild elephants had been seen some miles away we were off to see the largest Herd on the [Music] peninsula it was necessary to keep our elephant train a few miles away from the wild herd as we were afraid they might revert to the Primitive there they are some more of Our Stars there must have been 400 wild elephants in that herd one would imagine that they would destroy everything underfoot why imagine it they do the entire valley below us was filled with elephants one of the rarest sites upon which a hunter can gaze look at that big one anything he says is probably all right with the other elephants

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