Congorilla is the story of a two-year trip that he and Osa, his wife, took to Africa. They visted the pigmy villages of the Itura Forest deep in the Belgian Congo. They made the first sound pictures to come out of Central Africa. In the Alumbongo Mountains they discovered a new habitat of gorillas and encountered thousands of these great apes. After many trials, they even succeeded in capturing three alive. ( Early explorers had a different view of how to view and understand wildlife, but the Johnsons were pioneers in trying to spread an appreciation of exotic species through their photography.) The Johnsons were famous for their safaris to the South Seas, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and Africa.

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