Armand Denis
Directing
Biography
Armand Denis was a Belgian-born documentary filmmaker and television presenter. He is best known for his travel documentaries and wildlife films, particularly those focusing on Africa. Denis co-produced and presented the television series On Safari (1957–1965) with his wife, Michaela Denis, bringing the wonders of African wildlife and culture to a broad audience. His work played a significant role in popularizing the nature documentary genre.
Known For
A documentary film about adventures in the jungle featuring Frank Buck, a well-known American hunter, animal collector, writer, and actor in the 1930s. Buck demonstrates his ingenious methods for catching wild birds, mammals, and reptiles. Many scenes were shot on the vast Malay estates of Buck's friend, Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who appears in the film himself.
Wild Cargo
Compilation of footage from three Frank Buck films about his adventures capturing animals for the world's zoos: "Bring 'Em Back Alive" (1933); "Wild Cargo" (1934); and "Fang And Claw" (1935).
Jungle Cavalcade
Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life. Climax shows seabirds invading young turtles as they struggle to reach the sea.
On the Barrier Reef
The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.
Savage Splendor
Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.
Dangerous Journey
The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have.
Kriss
Married photographers Armand and Michaela Denis focus on Australian natives.
Under the Southern Cross
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Dark Rapture
The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who goes bird-riding at an ostrich farm. The expedition ranges from the central interior jungles and mountains to both coasts and as far south as Capetown, and ends with a gorilla hunt led by natives using 100-year-old muskets.
Below the Sahara
No white man has ever set foot beyond the coastal regions of New Guinea and so Armand and Michaela Denis determined to explore this virtually unknown territory. The film is the story of their adventures among natives whose colorful lives are based on brutal principles which have been unchanged for thousands of years and also of their expedition to the distant Waghi Valley where they found and photographed the rare and exotic bird of paradise.
Among the Headhunters
Armand Denis, who produced "Kriss" and "Goona-Goona" directed "Wild Cargo" and has traveled to every part of the world in search of new and sensational moving picture material and Miss Leila Roosevelt (Mrs. Denis), apioneer in long distance automobile travel who in 1933-34 drove 24.000 miles around the world decided to travel overland from Belgium across the whole width of the African continent to the Indian Ocean and back to Belgium.