FILMING “CHANG”
NATIVES AND TIGERS I Many of the thrills in “Chang,” Para- ! mount's wonder picture, are provided ! by tigers. i In going to the Nan country on the j north-east of Siam, Merian Cooper and I Ernest B. Shoedsack, the two men who j produced “Chang,” were surprised that i the natives would not kill tigers. They were superstitious, but finally were peri suaded by Cooper and Shoedsack that ! the killing of tigers would make the vilI lags safer. Some idea of the prevalence of maneating tigers may be gained from the statements of Hr. Hugh Taylor, the oldest missionay in the Nan district, that between 300 and 400 people were killed ibv tigers in the past five years. Mr. Cooper quotes the missionary as say- ' ing that from one village of 100 population 30 had been lost in one year. ! it wa s in such a country that the drama [of “Chans” was lilmed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 15
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