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Bill, I can recall watching Tarzan on television during the early fifties at home in Yeadon, a close-in suburb of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Outside included the Yeadon Movie Theatre which screened serials during their Saturday matinees. My overriding taste for moving images amongst art idioms emerged from this early immersion rather than visits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Considering the immediate availability of choice material, let me point to my favorite work of "jungle art", Joseph Cornell's collaged film ROSE HOBART (1936): https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joseph-cornell-rose-hobart-c-1936/ [best condensed background] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTve7oML5w [better quality print / new music by John Zorn] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQxtZlQlTDA [campy Brazilian music found by Cornell & played at premiere] Barry On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:31:43 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >i > > > >Why don’t you go and play outside > >less a question than a Mum instruction > >to Jungle Jim-on-TV-watching me > > > >Before environment, there was outside > >Land of apricot trees, grass, concrete, sky > >Monochromed eyes adjust blinkingly to colour > > > >Pick up a footy from under the clothesline > >Bounce it a few times. What would Bomba do? > >Where are the swinging vines? > > > >ii > > > >Tarzan lived outside, even slept in trees > >I felt more outside watching him and safari-suited men > >with pith helmets than in the backyard > > > >Ah-woo, ah wooh woo wooh > >mysterious deep African jungle sound > >I was later told was a kookaburra > > > >But ex-Olympian Johnny Weissmuller > >did all his own swimming stunts > >and patented his yell for all Tarzans to come > > > >iii > > > >Backyard cluttered with excess from inside > >What’s this cracked tabletop doing out here? > >Best deal with it with this old hammer > > > >Now what? Bit junglier down the side > >Ah, fuchsias. Tear off a branchlet > >Fold it near the flower, aim and shoot! > > > >In between the tool shed and the garage > >squelch through solid Wandering Jew > >to the fence - end of my outside > > > >iv > > > >How did that marble top get smashed? > >Dad demanded, after work > >Just going outside to play, Mum > > > >bw > >######################################################################## ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1