The movie boys in the jungle : or, Lively times among the wild beasts by Appleton
"The Movie Boys in the Jungle: or, Lively Times Among the Wild Beasts" by Victor Appleton is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows moving-picture operators Joe Duncan and Blake Stewart as they head to Africa to rescue Joe’s sister Jessie from a troubled mission station while filming wild animals in their native habitats. Alongside Joe’s father and the gloom-prone comedian C. C. Piper, they balance a
rescue mission with a daring contract to capture authentic jungle footage. Expect travel, peril, and resourceful camerawork amid wild beasts and wary tribes. The opening of the story shows Joe and Blake finishing lighthouse scenes on the California coast before learning that Joe’s sister, first thought to be in China, has instead gone to a remote station in Africa. En route east with their theatrical company, their train sideswipes a circus train; the boys film the chaos (including a briefly freed lion), impressing circus manager Harry Stone, who hires them to obtain true jungle animal pictures. They sail via Naples and Suez—where grim news reports say Jessie’s mission has been raided and the missionaries carried into the interior—yet press on with Mr. Duncan and a newly revealed shipmate, C. C. Piper. Reaching Mombasa, they take the Uganda Railway toward Victoria Nyanza, film buffalo and a rhino near the line, hire veteran guide Sergeant Hotchkiss, assemble a safari with native porters led by “Happy One,” and prepare to cross the lake to Entebbe to begin the search in earnest. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Appleton, Victor |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 26012832 |
| Title | The movie boys in the jungle : or, Lively times among the wild beasts |
| Original Publication | Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1913, copyright 1926. |
| Series Title | Movie boys series ; 4 |
| Note | Also published as: The moving picture boys in the jungle; or, Stirring times among wild animals. |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola, David E. Brown, Rod Crawford, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Africa -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Dime novels |
| Subject | Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76727 |
| Release Date | Aug 25, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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