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. In this second part of the film, expedition member and scientist Joan Baldwin gets sick, so they have to take a shortcut through a crocodile infested river. Expedition members attempt to clear the river first with many shots of people fighting crocodiles with spears and guns. They end up crossing the river successfully with their elephants and make it back to a village.

0:17 herd of wild elephants in a swamp, 0:50 expedition members in boats trying to break up the herd of elephants, 1:06 different shots of elephants in the swamp including a white one, 2:39 expedition members on boats chasing elephants, 3:18 elephant takes down a boat, 3:46 hunters shoot and try to stab elephant with spears, 4:19 expedition crew falls off boat and elephant takes down boat, 4:57 expedition continues through the jungle, 5:32 a herd of “Seladang” cows, 7:15 a dead Seladang cow, 7:56 two expedition members acting out a marriage ceremony and getting caught by Schenck, 9:15 Schenck examining Baldwin because she is sick, 11:28 a honey bear climbing a tree, 11:42 crocodiles on a riverbank, 12:22 honey bear swimming through the water and getting mauled by crocodiles, 13:26 expedition members begin using boats to tire out crocodiles, 14:03 two boats capsize and expedition members are chased by a crocodile, 15:05 expedition member gets attacked by a crocodile while others get chased, 15:58 hunter shoots at crocodile and brings the corpse of the killed expedition member onto the boat, 16:51 elephant train arrives at the river and prepares to cross, 18:32 Schenck speaking to different expedition members, 19:34 expedition members begin clearing the river of crocodiles with boats and spears, 20:51 two men pull out a crocodile that they hunted, 21:28 expedition members hunting crocodiles on boats, 25:06 a boat capsizes and crocodiles begin chasing the expedition members, 26:22 hunter kills crocodile with a gun and they pull up the body of one of the expedition members that was attacked, 26:56 Schenck giving first aid, 27:50 woman holds a dying man, 28:16 Schenck treating injured expedition members, 28:47 Schenck comes over to treat the dying man next to the woman, 29:40 close-ups of Schenck, 30:13 expedition members pick up the dying man and put him on top of an elephant, 31:04 elephant train begins crossing the river, 32:57 crocodiles begin approaching the elephants, 33:50 expedition members begin shooting at them and stabbing them with spears, 34:45 elephant train begins climbing out of the river, 35:13 a sick Baldwin lying down, 35:46 Schenck treating the extremely sick man who rough the alligator; he is shown recovering, 36:27 expedition members begin praying, 37:26 elephant train making its way back into a village, 38:51 “The End” as the narrator suggests that Ali and Bee are to be married.

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