"CHANG."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 10

"CHANG."

A FILM OF THE WILD

Uneonquered, unconquerable, the jungle, is man's greatest enemy in Siam, and the difficulties with which man is faced in trying to penetrato the threatening, relentless growth could not hive been better shown to the world than they are in "Chang,"' the fine Paramount film which is soon to be released in Auckland.

Natives who have never <o?n a motion picture, wild beasts which had never known the crack of a rifle, and the dense jungle—that is the cast of "Chang." So far into the wilderness did the two photographers who made the film tramp, that for seven months their position Was unknown even to their employer - ;. But they have returned, and with them thev have brought a story at which the world must marvel.

Kru, his wife Chaptui, and their son and daughter, are the chicf ligures in "Chang," and. the story opens at the jungle home; of the happy littl* family. At no tint&is the family safe from the raids of the jungle beasts for long. As soon as the tracks of a wild animal are noticed, traps, snares, deadfalls and pitfalls are built. Little hope for the marauding, leopard or tiger which is caught in any of these. Every year * rice crop is planted, but every year there is the constant danger of the harvest being destroyed. This is usually the<work of a "Chang " As soon as the praadnoe iof a Chang known, a tremendo«9-'jpit4s dug, and it is unusual for the *j|fci>aJtto escape. But its cap ture bringstt'fald from the herd, and a tribe of three hundred of these ferocious beasts charges down on the little native village near Kru'n home.