*Frank Buck's FANG AND CLAW (1935) Oversized Pressbook With Herald

Description

Vintage original 16 x 22 in. US pressbook from the 1930s adventure documentary,
FANG AND CLAW
, released in 1935 by RKO Radio Pictures and
directed by Frank Buck
.
Consisting of 12 pages, this oversized pressbook is incomplete, as it is missing pages 1 through 4; however, the original pressbook herald is included and affixed to the inside of the back cover. It is in overall fine- condition as shown with a horizontal fold through the center.
In a written onscreen statement, the film is described as the "official and authentic motion picture record of Frank Buck's wild animal collecting expedition in the Asiatic jungles."
According to Buck's autobiography, the expedition included footage shot in northern Assam, in the northeast section of India.
RKO edited portions of this movie and its predecessors into a new "best of" feature called
Jungle Cavalcade
(1941).
Frank Buck and his native crew hunt the jungles of the Far East to capture wild animals for American zoos. Buck first traps a 300-pound python, then a Bird of Paradise. Buck comes on a baby armor-plated rhinocerous as it is being attacked by a tiger. Buck shoots the tiger to save the baby rhino, then amputates its mangled ear. Returning to camp, they find a 24-foot python, which they shoot out of a tree and bag with a net. To snare monkeys, Buck sets up a huge net and lures them with food such as tapioca. Next, Buck snares a sixteen-foot crocodile and another python, which had bitten and encoiled itself around his helper Ali. Buck then enters a deep Malaysian jungle to seek a tiger. With the use of a cage and the help of natives, he finally captures it.