Jungle Prestige

Content

This film is about friendly neighbours. Puppet film set in Africa where natives take over a western woman's pressure cooker in exchange for local resources.
It is unlikely that this mode of advertising, now more than half a century ago, would be used. However, the commercial message is clear. Unfortunately, the film can no longer be seen in Technicolor. This is due to the mediocre quality of the videotape this film was digitised from.

Trivia

The film shows great similarity in design to  ‘Lunch in the Jungle’ (1963). Jungle Prestige dates from 1962, so here the concept is still original.
It was efficient of the Dollywood studio to carefully store puppets and props. Dollywood had extensive storage for puppets and props. Puppets were catalogued and stored after use. The directors had a photo album of the archive available and could draw from it. Reusing a puppet from the archive was a saving in design and production costs.
In 1963, neither advertisers nor the public knew specific details of advertisements from other countries. It will therefore never have occurred to them that puppets and set pieces were reused in different films. After all, the internet was not yet available at that time.
If one looked over Geesink's extensive set archive, one would quickly assume that every conceivable set was in stock. In practice, this was often disappointing. Set pieces often had to meet specific technical or artistic requirements, so the archive copy was not usable and a new one had to be made. Puppets were often reused as extras in sets.