GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT. B^fore s^arting upon (their twoyear safari into the wild and unexplored Itura Forest in Central Africa, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson vowed to themselves that they would not return until they had secured authoritative and realistic pictures of the gorilla in his native hahitat and of those queer and grotesque tribe of people, the pygmies. That they kept th'e faith is unequivocally proven by the Fox picture, "Congorilla," which opens' at the Grand Theatre to-night. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson spent seven months in the many pygmy villages in the great Itura Forest, photographing and recording the peculiar people in their weird dances, isongs and tribal rites. During the two-year safari they shot over 131,000 feet of motion picture sound film, but not a single wild animal, following out their yearsold adage, "thrilling without killing." In the making of "Congorilla," they have assembled the most thrilling, breath-taking and interesting adventures of their two-years' stay.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 431, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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155GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 431, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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