The Big Game Hunt (1935/1952)

The Big Game Hunt (1935/1952)

Contains footage from the Johnsons’ 1933-1934 Flying Safari, as used in two episodes of the 1952 TV series called Osa Johnson’s Big Game Hunt. Early 20th century naturalists and explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson journey across Africa in 1935 in two amphibious airplanes, encountering and filming African natives and many forms of wildlife including lions, rhino, elephants, and especially a large population of baboons. A prime example of the type of popular, wildly exploitative travel film made in the US between 1920 and 1950.

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30 Comments

  1. Poor_ Fellow on January 27, 2023 at 4:36 am

    I can’t even waste my time watching this garbage.

  2. Mahsun suvaroğlu on January 27, 2023 at 4:36 am

    18:04 hema vehșin!

  3. eileen on January 27, 2023 at 4:36 am

    So interesting. Thank you!

  4. raphael mwendo on January 27, 2023 at 4:39 am

    Looting of the highest degree.

  5. Mr Moriaso Nabaala on January 27, 2023 at 4:42 am

    Massive massive herds of game then. Where did they go to? the plane terrified the animals which look quire healthy actually.

  6. fidel catsro on January 27, 2023 at 4:45 am

    Great time in history before gmo poisons in the soil

  7. Muhenda Patrick on January 27, 2023 at 4:46 am

    Our ancesters were eating un toxfied meat, but we the descendants we’re suffering in towns, whyy???.

  8. jann hebrank on January 27, 2023 at 4:48 am

    wow…such bigotry and ignorance. No wonder there is so much hatred against people with darker skin. white people want to keep this ignorant rhetoric as truth.

  9. Aquila III on January 27, 2023 at 4:49 am

    WOnderful. Thanks. Can I use it in my YT channel about Anthropology?

  10. JHON ELVIS TAYPE SACSI on January 27, 2023 at 4:50 am

    Es realmente interesante

  11. hairydogstail on January 27, 2023 at 4:51 am

    The primitive man has taken over the western nations today..

  12. Clemilson Pedro de souza Souza on January 27, 2023 at 4:54 am

    Coitados dos animais não gosto destes vídeos que maltrata a natureza !!!!

  13. Robert M. BGH on January 27, 2023 at 5:00 am

    This is one of many racist, dishonest, and negative film presentations that was prevalent during this time period that was perpetuated and perpetrated on black people of the world as a catalyst and excuse to murder, enslave and rob African peoples of their land and resources by deeming them uncivilized and savage.

  14. Jade Martin on January 27, 2023 at 5:00 am

    Baboona!!!!

  15. Musa Kamara on January 27, 2023 at 5:01 am

    Babylon dem ⚜️👑🤬🫵🏾

  16. Arthur McBride on January 27, 2023 at 5:02 am

    Does he never shut up.

  17. N Obaso on January 27, 2023 at 5:08 am

    6:30 😂😂😂😂😂

  18. Musa Kamara on January 27, 2023 at 5:11 am

    Money they are money wi are money who tf is this guy talking

  19. cnuauk on January 27, 2023 at 5:13 am
  20. Nosferatuh AL on January 27, 2023 at 5:14 am

    "our boys" wow our great great great great fathers were nothing but slaves! Painful to watch. 😔

  21. Acer Maximinus on January 27, 2023 at 5:15 am

    That’s not writhing in ecstasy @10:21
    This entire story about their dance is just BS.
    He doesn’t know why.
    It looks like a greeting, they aren’t really even dancing. Just clapping and singing.

  22. Bryon Mills on January 27, 2023 at 5:16 am

    So full of shit

  23. Sunita Kumari on January 27, 2023 at 5:20 am

    Bro can I say something

  24. saurabh grover on January 27, 2023 at 5:20 am

    MIND BLOWN..BY EVERY SINGLE COMPONENT OF THIS FILM..MORE SO BY THE ALMOST EXTINCT MASTERCLASS OF THE NARRATOR AND THE SCRIPTWRITER/S, ABSOLUTELY MIND BLOWING..!!

  25. CITY BOY 🕺🧗 on January 27, 2023 at 5:21 am

    Where is this

  26. blackhawk32b on January 27, 2023 at 5:24 am

    Funny how the narrator makes stuff up to be dramatic. The herds were running from the airplane not running because the land was dry, lol

  27. Robert Bolding on January 27, 2023 at 5:25 am

    we all know what they did to the ape off-camera cut off its hands to hold an ashtray at sears. we all bought one or two.

  28. Delight Loves Movies on January 27, 2023 at 5:25 am

    Are there more like this?

  29. Michael R. on January 27, 2023 at 5:28 am

    If the commentator ever covered a war he’d have a stroke.

  30. Jay Brown on January 27, 2023 at 5:32 am

    Dope narration

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