jJohnson, Osa Helen Leighly1894╨1953explorer, filmmaker and writerBorn in Chanute, Kansas, on March 14, 1894, Osa Leighly attended local schools. In May 1910 she married adventurer and photographer Martin E. Johnson. For two years they played the vaudeville circuit with an exhibit of photographs Martin Johnson had taken in the South Seas while accompanying Jack London on his voyage of the Snark. By 1912 they had accumulated the funds to return to the South Sea islands and make a motion-picture record of cannibal and head-hunting tribesmen. Thenceforward they alternated lengthy photographic trips into the field with lecture and exhibition tours at home. They were in the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands in 1914, North Borneo in 1917╨1919 and again in 1935, and in 1921╨1922, 1923╨1927, 1928╨1929, and 1933╨1934 in various parts of Africa. In the field Martin Johnson was the principal photographer, while Osa was guard, hunter, and pilot. They made motion-picture records of wildlife for the American Museum of Natural History and gathered much valuable geographical and ethnological information. Their motion pictures, which were highly successful in commercial distribution, included Jungle Adventures, 1921, Head Hunters of the South Seas, 1922, Trailing African Wild Animals, 1923, Simba, The King of Beasts, 1928, Across the World, 1930, Wonders of the Congo, 1931, Congorilla, 1932, Baboons, 1935, and Borneo, 1937, along with such short features as Cannibaland, The Adventurous Orang, and Wings over Africa. They also collaborated on several books: Cannibal-Land, 1922, Camera Trails in Africa, 1924, Lion, 1929, Congorilla, 1931, and Over African Jungles, 1935. On her own Osa Johnson wrote Jungle Babies, 1930, and Jungle Pete, 1932. After Martin Johnson╒s death in February 1937 Osa continued in the work they had begun together. In that year she led a large expedition from Twentieth-Century Fox into the African bush to film sequences for the motion picture Stanley and Livingstone. She produced four more films on her own╤Jungles Calling, 1937, I Married Adventure, 1940, African Paradise, 1941, and Tulagi and the Solomons, 1943╤and wrote Osa Johnson╒s Jungle Friends, 1939, I Married Adventure, the nonfiction best seller of 1940, Pantaloons, the Story of a Baby Elephant, 1941, Four Years in Paradise, 1941, Snowball, the Baby Gorilla, 1942, Bride in the Solomons, 1944, and Tarnish, the True Story of a Lion Cub, 1945. She also designed a line of accurately detailed animal toys for the National Wildlife Federation. She died in New York City on January 7, 1953.Movie: From a documentary by Osa and Martin Johnson. ╓styl ` J ! ¬ 5¬ % 5¬ E !I ì !I Æ !I ] 5¬ ^ !I ╖ !I ╚ !I ╨ !I ε !I ÷ !I !I !I 4 !I < !I L !I T !I h !I p !I z !I é !I ë !I ò !I ¢ !I ┼ !I ╨ !I ╥ !I τ !I φ !I ■ !I + !I 8 !I @ !I W !I _ !I c !I k !I u !I ü !I ò !I ║ !I ╟ !I ╙ !I ▐ !I Φ 5¬ Θ !I ═ !I Σ !I !I !I & !I 9 !I A !I Q !I ] !I t !I à !I í !I ⌐ !I ╝ !I Γ !I
