"Beyond Bengal" is a documentary about Harry Schenck and his friends going on an odd hunting safari in Malaysia. What makes it odd is that he said in the film that "wanton killing was not the point of the expedition" and then he and his friends blasted the crap out of a lot of creatures. Also odd is that most of the film (especially the final half) seems to consist of his loyal porters being savaged by wild animals!
The film consists of a lot of silent footage with sound effects and narration added. Considering they were in Malaysia and not Hollywood, I could understand not having state of the art sound equipment with them! Some of the footage is exceptional and some of it (mostly the crocodile attacks) appears to have been faked. In other words, when you see crocs chomping on everyone, I really doubt if anyone got hurt making the film. However, for the audiences watching at the time who were not as familiar with animals as we are now in this video age, it must have been pretty exciting and scary stuff to watch. Now, it, along with the very patronizing (talking about his porters as his 'boys') and hyperbolic narration ("...there it is...the most treacherous and hateful thing that lives" when referring to a leopard), it does have its problems when viewed today. Still, mildly interesting and can be downloaded for free from archive.org.
