Osa Johnson Trailers
Osa Johnson: Queen of the Jungle TrailerThe Ark of Lights and Shadows TrailerAdventure Lovers Trailer
Most Popular Osa Johnson Trailers
Total trailers found: 12
Osa Johnson: Queen of the Jungle Trailer (2025)
23 February 2025
A mini documentary about two of the world's earliest filmmakers that were forgotten by time.
Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Trailer (1930)
01 February 1930
As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Solomons (where they seek and find cannibals), and New Hebrides.
I Married Adventure Trailer (1940)
24 July 1940
A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, "I Married Adventure" stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name.
African Paradise Trailer (1941)
01 January 1941
Osa Johnson, "The First Lady of Exploration", stars in this rare documentary -- lost for over 50 years!! After the success of her 1940 book, I Married Adventure, Osa Johnson was contracted to write three follow-up novels.
The Ark of Lights and Shadows Trailer (2018)
17 March 2018
The forgotten story of Martin and Osa Johnson, rebel filmmakers and Kansas natives who made some of the first films in Africa in times when filming itself was more dangerous than lions or malaria.
Borneo Trailer (1937)
03 September 1937
Expeditions in Borneo by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
Simba: The King of the Beasts Trailer (1928)
25 January 1928
Simba: The King of the Beasts is an 1928 American black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Martin and Osa Johnson, which features the couple's four-year expedition to track the lion across Kenyan veld to his lair.
Congorilla Trailer (1932)
07 August 1932
The first sound movie made entirely in Africa, Congorilla premiered in 1932 and permitted audiences to hear what they had only been able to see during previous safari films.
Baboona Trailer (1935)
19 January 1935
The 1935 Morro films, shot by Martin and Osa Johnson, recount the 60,000 mile "Flying Safari" undertaken by the filmmakers as they flew their two amphibious airlanes(the Zebra stripped 'Osa's Ark' and the Giraffe-spotted 'Spirit of Africa') from Capetown, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt.
Adventure Lovers Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
They made the first films about the king of animals, the pygmies of the Ituri forest, the first aerial photographs of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro.
Cannibals of the South Seas Trailer (1918)
21 July 1918
First of many films by the husband/wife team of Martin and Osa Johnson, originally backed by George Eastman.
Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific Trailer (1918)
02 January 1918
Documentary of an expedition by Martin E. Johnson and his wife into the native habitats of the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific.
