that the early 1900s seem to be the key Tarzan time period. The first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was released in 1912, and it's safe to assume the books also then pick up in 1912, with Tarzan's family shipwreck happening somewhere in the late 1880s — early 1890s.
Plot. In the late 1880s, a British couple and their infant son are shipwrecked in Equatorial Africa. The adults build a treehouse but are killed by Sabor, a villainous leopard. Kala and Kerchak, the leaders of a troop of gorillas, lose their infant son to Sabor as well.
The original film was set in 1882, but 'Dumont's Trading Post' is established in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt shows up his presidency (1901-09) (In real life he visited Africa in 1909-1910 during the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition) and is running in the 1912 election.
While Burroughs never said exactly where Tarzan was set, Cameroon's sandy beaches, imposing jungle and ape sanctuaries seem like a good bet – so much so that the West African country was chosen as the setting for the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
The man was William Charles Mildin, 14th Earl of Streatham. For 15 years, between 1868 and 1883 his life was the prototype of Tarzan. Although many of the details were unknown at the time, the broad outlines of his story were fully known to the public.
Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
When Jane Porter travelled with her father, she was thought to be about 20-years-old, whereas Tarzan was 18 - however, there's no way to know his actual age since he was raised by gorillas.
Although Burroughs never named a specific location for Tarzan's home, it was somewhere in West Africa, in a country with varied geography that includes a coastline and verdant jungles, in a country like Cameroon.
The Waziri are a fictional African tribe created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Tarzan novels. Burroughs characterizes the Waziri as the greatest warriors in Africa, though small in numbers.
In the invented language, Mangani (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.
Originally, Terk was going to be a male like in the books but was changed to a female after Rosie O'Donnell's audition. Coincidentally, Chris Rock was offered the role of Terk, but turned it down. In the musical, like in the books, Terk is portrayed as a male (originally portrayed by Chester Gregory) and he is a tenor.
"Tarzan's parents are not Anna and Elsa's parents," said Buck Sunday night at the Anaheim Convention Center. Buck previously said Anna and Elsa's mother from "Frozen" gave birth to Tarzan in a Reddit AMA.
Terk, referring to herself Terk is a major character in Disney's 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan. She is a rowdy, tomboyish, and fun-loving gorilla and the best friend of Tarzan.
Tarzan II (also known as Tarzan II: The Legend Begins) is a 2005 direct-to-video animated film and follow-up to the 1999 Walt Disney Feature Animation film Tarzan.
A real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than.
As anyone who has read the first book in the series, “Tarzan of the Apes”, can tell you, he taught himself to shave so he might not become an ape figuratively.
Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (the formal title is Viscount Greystoke according to Burroughs in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; Earl of Greystoke in later, non-canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie Greystoke).
Films such as The Jungle Book (1967), The Lion King (1994), and Tarzan (1999) are examples of Disney spreading 'knowledge' about distant cultures to children. The Lion King and Tarzan are the only two Disney films stated to be depicted somewhere in Africa.
Sabor is finally killed as she is impaled on the head of Tarzan's spear tip when the ape man raises it against the ferocious leopard, thus killing the animal.
That's right. Probably the biggest misconception of them all: the “great apes” who raised Tarzan, although almost always depicted as plain old gorillas, were in fact a distinct fictional species that referred to themselves as the Mangani and to their larger enemies/cousins, the gorillas, as the Bolgani.
(1939), Tarzan and Jane could not be depicted as having their own child because they were not legally married. The storyline was modified to have them adopt an orphaned child in the jungle.
Sheena. With slight modifications, Sheena is basically a female version of Tarzan and was the first female comic book character with her own title, debuting in 1937 in Great Britain and 1938 in America.
Jane Porter from Disney's Tarzan is called Jane because she is named after Jane Goodall. You may ask "Why would Professor Porter name his daughter after Jane Goodall?"
