INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen the first Tarzan film, Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln, a native of Rochester, Indiana, on Sat., Sept. 10 at 8 p.m., at Garfield Park Arts Center. The 1918 film will have a live score provided by Roger Lippincott.
D.W. Griffith cast the Hoosier actor at the screen’s first Tarzan due to his massive chest and great physique. The film co-stars Enid Markey as Jane. He played Tarzan until the mid-1920s. Based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, it was filmed in Griffith Park near Los Angeles and in the Selig Zoo.
The Vintage Movie Night film will be preceded by a chapter of a Tarzan serial, some of it lost, also starring Elmo Lincoln. Admission is $5 and concessions are available. For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-327-7135.
