The first Tarzan movie, titled , was primarily filmed in Morgan City, Louisiana
While early marketing campaigns for the 1918 film falsely boasted that it was "Produced in the Wildest Jungles of Brazil" to drum up exotic mystique, historians have long verified that the production took place squarely in the heart of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana . 1. Lake End Park and Lake Palourde where was the first tarzan movie filmed top
The first cinematic adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes was a silent film released in 1918. While the fictional jungle of “West Africa” serves as the story’s setting, the actual filming locations were confined to the United States. This paper identifies the primary filming site as Morgan City, Louisiana , with additional sequences shot in Chicago, Illinois . The first Tarzan movie, titled , was primarily
