Captain Grogg among wildlife
About Captain Grogg among wildlife
In the jungle Captain Grogg is told the animals' rule is eat or be eaten, and the zoology is deliberately wrong. A lion tries to eat him. An elephant saves him. Back in a village, a Black woman mends his trousers.
Cast & crew
More about Captain Grogg among wildlife
Victor Bergdahl animated Kapten Grogg bland vilda djur, the eighth Grogg film. It opened at Röda Kvarn in Stockholm on 10 March 1919. The censor card is number 21181, dated 3 August 1919, all ages, 201 meters, timed at 10 minutes at 18 frames a second. The Swedish Film Database says Bergdahl took the animals' walks from Eadweard Muybridge's book Animals in Motion.
Themes
Making
Bergdahl studied Muybridge's sequence photographs and redrew the steps as Grogg's lion and elephant. The Swedish Film Database flags the result as full of zoological jokes on purpose.
Reviews
Dagens Nyheter's Marfa called this one of the funniest Grogg films and said the elephant at full gallop was the part people would remember.
Preservation
The Swedish Film Database records a cinematheque screening on 29 March 1973.
Notes
- Finnish titles include Kapteeni Naukkunen villieläinten parissa and Kapteeni Grogg petoeläinten parissa.
- It follows Kapten Grogg och fru (1918) and comes before Kapten Grogg badar (1919).
- Märta, writing as Marfa in Dagens Nyheter, said the audience was glad to see Grogg again and singled out the galloping elephant.
- Svenska Biografteaterns Filmbyrå handled Swedish 35mm distribution.
Scenes
- The lion gets Grogg in its mouth.
- The elephant pulls him out of the meal.
- In the village a woman sews up the trousers the lion tore.
Influenced by
- Eadweard Muybridge's Animals in Motion, used for the animal walks
