PICTURE "FAKING"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 10 (Supplement)

PICTURE "FAKING"

1 DECEPTIONS IN " INGAGI "

ALLEGED AFRICAN FILM

The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has ordered Congo Pictures. Limited. Los Angeles, producer of the film called " Ingagi," to cease representation of a motion picture film a_> a true and authentic record of an expedition in Africa, or any other country, unless all the scenes of such film were actually made in Africa, or such other country, reports the Scientific American. Advertising erroneously that all scenes incorporated in a motion picture film of travel in Africa, or any other country, are pictures actually taken in Africa or such other country, or that a film is a true representation of habits and customs of races, tribes or communities of human beings, when in fact such picture is entirely fictional, is also ordered to be discontinued. An animal proclaimed to be " new to science " and designated in the film as " tortadillo," because of its resemblance to a tortoise and an armadillo, was a turtle with wings, scales and a long tail glued on to it, while the socalled " pygmies." said to be shown in their native environment, were not pygmies at all, but coloured children of from five to ten years of age living in Los Angeles. A lion shown in the film as attacking a cameraman and being killed was a trained lion in Hollywood, often used in moving pictures. Many jungle scenes of the film were taken in a Los Angeles zoo. While the word " Ingagi " was represented as meaning gorilla in the African language, it was found that there was no such word in any written dictionary of any African language, the word for gorilla, as given in such dictionary being entirely different from the word " Ingagi." aXt sXd. >jk ijk iXi iZc iXc iXc iXt itc