In August 1917 a band of filmmakers, actors and acrobats fought malaria, unbearable heat and the swamp of the Atchafalaya River Basin to bring to the silver screen the best-selling book Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was an instant hit, considered one of the top six motion pictures of the silent era, and one of the first 10 films to earn over one million dollars at the box office.
