"Ingagi" is a cheap exploitation film that apparently earned the filmmakers a TON of money. It's hard to imagine as you watch most of the movie because it is so very dull. However, near the end you see 'Ingagi'. The local tribe apparently engages in a weird system of bestiality by offering women to the gorillas! In the process, you see a bit of skin...and that probably was THE reason the film earned anything at all...as folks could say they were going to see an educational film when it actually was just a veil for nude women!
The film apparently made on the cheap...and much of it was faked. Some of the African animals are not African at all...such as armadillos and alligators from North America and the apes that had their way with the Ingagi women were Asian orangutans (though there's also a man in an ape suit in some scenes)! But it is much worse. Much of the footage was actually taken from an serious ethnographic film made many years before (hence it being a silent film apart from the narration) and the rest was faked. Many of the African animals were actually filmed in the L. A. Zoo! And those tiny pygmy people were just Black-American kids! I have no idea who the naked black women were and where they got that footage!
The bottom line is that this is a terrible, fake and yet incredibly boring movie. It is interesting to see so you can see how bad the film was...and yet it apparently fooled a lot of folks back in the day! It's also a prime example of an exploitational film at its worst....with not much to commend it.
The film apparently made on the cheap...and much of it was faked. Some of the African animals are not African at all...such as armadillos and alligators from North America and the apes that had their way with the Ingagi women were Asian orangutans (though there's also a man in an ape suit in some scenes)! But it is much worse. Much of the footage was actually taken from an serious ethnographic film made many years before (hence it being a silent film apart from the narration) and the rest was faked. Many of the African animals were actually filmed in the L. A. Zoo! And those tiny pygmy people were just Black-American kids! I have no idea who the naked black women were and where they got that footage!
The bottom line is that this is a terrible, fake and yet incredibly boring movie. It is interesting to see so you can see how bad the film was...and yet it apparently fooled a lot of folks back in the day! It's also a prime example of an exploitational film at its worst....with not much to commend it.