Word: python
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when the coil grew uncomfortably tight. Instead of yelping, the native fainted, had to be rescued by four of his confreres. Sai-Yu, who watched the python shooting, cried all that...
...Baltimore last week arrived the steamship City of Elwood with one python. When the City of Elwood left Shanghai it had two pythons aboard. One escaped in Manila, wandered ashore. Near a native's hut it saw a pig, which it swallowed. The pig was tied to the hut. Three days later the native found the python dying of indigestion...
...Pythons. In Philadelphia two pythons had lived in the same cage in lethargic harmony for four years. One was 20 ft. long; the other 18 ft. The 20-ft. python had eaten recently, and since pythons are seldom hungry keepers put a single 25-lb. pig in the cage for the smaller one. Next morning that python lay in a corner squeezed to death. His larger friend was coiled contentedly in the opposite corner. A bulge in his middle showed...
Most spectacular fight in this film is an enlargement of UFA's: a struggle between a python and a tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...
Other engrossing fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive are tiger v. water buffalo, tiger v. black leopard, tiger v. crocodile, crocodile v. python, python v. honey bear. The honey bear comes out better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy, he is the most charming of Author Buck's captives which include a quarter-ton elephant, a pot-bellied monkey, a white fuzzy creature which runs up & down on a rope...