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Jungle Girl's official release date is 21 June 1941, although this is actually the date the seventh chapter was made available to film exchanges. [1] The serial was re-released on 19 April 1947 between the first runs of Son of Zorro and Jesse James Rides Again. It was the first Republic serial to be re-released in this way. [1]
The short story that led to the creation of Nyoka was "The Land of Hidden Men" by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the May 1931 issue of Blue Book. [1] The short story was later expanded into the lost world novel Jungle Girl, published in 1932. The novel is set in Cambodia, and the main character is an Asian princess called Fou-tan. Aside from living in ...
Nyoka (Fawcett's Jungle Girl/Nyoka the Jungle Girl and Master Comics), and the main character in the 1941 movie serial Jungle Girl and its 1942 sequel Perils of Nyoka; Nula is another jungle girl also from the webcomic "Kaza's Mate Gwenna" who considers herself to be a predecessor to Gwenna and decides to be a nudist like the latter after an ...
Perils of Nyoka was budgeted at $169,296 although the final negative cost was $175,010 (a $5,714, or 3.4%, overspend), making it the most expensive Republic serial of 1942. [1] It was filmed between March 20 and May 2, 1942, [1] with the outdoor action sequences shot primarily at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California. [1]
A 15-episode film serial was produced in 1941, [2] but it was set in Africa and the story bore no relation to the plot of the novel.. In October 18, 2014, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., began a paid webcomic on their official website, by Martin Powell (script), Will Meugniot (art) and Jo Meugniot (colors). [3]
[1] At forty-five days, the serial's production also shares the title of the second longest shoot of all Republic serials with Jungle Girl (1941). The longest was Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) at forty-seven days. [1] The serial's production number was 1295. [1] A car chase from this serial was re-used in Flying Disc Man from Mars. [3]
Emil Van Horn (October 3, 1907 – February 15, 1967) [1] [2] was an American stuntman and actor. Together with Charles Gemora, Ray Corrigan, Steve Calvert, and George Barrows, he was known as one of Hollywood's "Gorilla Men" – performers who wore a gorilla suit to portray apes on stage and screen.
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House during the Golden Age of Comic Books. She was the first female comic book character with her own title, with her 1941 premiere issue ( cover-dated Spring 1942) preceding Wonder Woman #1 (Summer 1942).