Word: sumatran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good job has been done with jungle life. This time the scene is Sumatra and the photography by Ernest Schoedsack, who helped to make Chang. Though it is nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar...
...humidly hot in Sumatra; the intense sunlight encourages luxuriant plant life. One of the chief Sumatran products is, as all the world knows, rubber. South American rubber is garnered mainly from wild trees, carried through jungle paths. In the Far East and Middle East the business is much more highly organized. To handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree...