This 1934 semi-documentary film “Beyond Bengal” was written, photographed and directed by Harry Schenck, and features Schenck and companions Joan Baldwin and John Martin, and a teen-aged Malay couple, Ali and Bee. Schenck, a Hollywood movie cameraman turned amateur explorer, obtains the permission of the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia to conduct an expedition deep into the Malayan Jungle. Schenck’s party hunts and kills monkeys, tigers, and leopards during their journey. They also encounter different types of snakes, including one that catches an expedition member. The film ends with them encountering a herd of wild elephants. While the film is meant to function almost like a documentary, many scenes are either staged or crudely fashioned with editing techniques, particularly those with tigers and leopards.

0:07 Showmen’s Pictures Inc. Presents “Beyond Bengal”, 0:22 Harry Schenck Production, 1:00 a map showing Southeast Asia, 2:24 a letter from the Sultan of Perak to Mr. Schenck, 3:08 Sultan Iskandar Shah, 3:18 Harry Schenck, 3:32 the Sultan meeting Schenck and Joan Baldwin, 4:28 different expedition members shown, 5:04 Schenck and Baldwin arrive at the starting point of the expedition and is introduced to different expedition members, 6:06 expedition leaves as a train of elephants, 7:17 an oxen drawn supply train, 7:50 oxen train crossing a river, 9:21 the main expedition train in a field, 10:08 different types of monkeys, 10:39 expedition members begin hunting a White Gibbon with spears, 12:14 monkeys swinging through the trees, 12:28 elephants clearing the jungle as the expedition continues, 13:06 bats sleeping in a tree, 13:22 a tiger, 13:36 a group of pythons, 14:28 a python in a tree hunting a monkey and strangling it to death, 15:49 expedition crew setting up camp in the jungle, 16:42 a baby elephant playing, 18:03 a man and woman flirting at the camp, 19:00 expedition members collecting King Cobras and putting them in a basket, 19:52 expedition member catching a python and presenting it to Schenck and Baldwin, 20:31 Baldwin and Schenck together and preparing weapons, 21:36 tigers and leopards moving as expedition members make their way through the jungle making noise, 23:10 expedition members kill a tiger, 23:41 tigers continue to run as people move through the jungle, 24:48 a python grabbing an expedition member and he shakes it off, 25:19 expedition member shoots a leopard, 25:39 tiger in the jungle, 26:05 hunters shoot various leopards, 27:05 a tiger chases exhibition members and is shot by hunters, 28:00 tiger knocks down a member of the camera crew, 28:33 expedition continues through the jungle, 28:58 a herd of wild elephants in wetlands

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