Explorers of the World
Cast & Crew
Harold Noice
Atlas Sound Studios
James L. Clark
Laurence M. Gould
Gene Lamb
Harold Mccracken
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Synopsis
Five members of the Explorers Club of New York: Harold McCracken, Gene Lamb, James L. Clark, Laurence M. Gould and Lieutenant Commander J. R. Stenhouse are assembled by explorer and fellow member, Harold Noice. One by one, they narrate films about their latest expeditions. A film of some of the happenings on the Stoll-McCracken Arctic Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History and the Ohio State University Photo-Scientific Expedition is narrated by McCracken. Shots of Alaskan moose, brown bears, the Bering Sea, sea lions and Eskimos are shown. A journey to Tibet, Borneo and Bali is narrated by Lamb. Scenes of monkeys, leopards, a camel trip and the ceremonial dances of Buddhist lamas are portrayed. In the film narrated by Clark, scenes depict wildlife in the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, including lions, zebras, gazelles and waterbuck. A fight between a lion and an eland is also shown. Segments on sea elephants and a whale hunt are included in Stenhouse's film of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic trip. The difficulties of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in which sled dogs were killed for food for the stronger dogs are described by Gould. The life of the Tariano Indians in the Amazon jungle, is shown by Noice. Shots of owls, jungle cranes, toucans, boa constrictors and tapirs are also shown. Near the end of the film, a plea is made against the killing of animals for sport.
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According to the Motion Picture Herald review, this was the first release of Raspin Productions, which was formed to produce and distribute authentic exploration features. The Film Daily review includes Commander Attilio Gotti among the explorers, but no other review mentions him.
