The first ever Tarzan yell 

You know ERB may have heard it, he died about 1950.

Brian Blessed.

*clap clap clap clap*

Frankie Saitta I’ve had worse 🇬🇧

😂😂😂😂

I don’t know but it gave me goose nipples...

I always wondered if there HAD been a yell…it was a silent movie after all Sadly he looks and sounds unwell and out of breath 😢 which made have had something to do with it

It's been many decades since I read the books and I'm rusty on what things are called in the language of the Mangani, but I think I remember Sabor as the generic name for any lioness and Numa for a male lion. But I might be mixing the lioness up with leopards.

I do love how the host was such a thorough professional that he didn't crack a smile and played it straight and was complimentary. Think what would have happened if Johnny Carson had been the host!

Lincoln played Tarzan just three times between 1918 and 1921, all before talkies, so the "yell" was silent.

@@dontaylor7315 Thank God!

DatCarGuy310 at the time it was 34 years ago,brainless.

1850s

+Reid Mason I agree. Be fair to Elmo Lincoln. The first Tarzan film was from 1918. If this clip was 34 years later, that would put in 1952. He would have certainly been much older.

Exactly! Elmo wasn't in any reasonable shape at this time. He was elderly and unwell, in fact he died a few weeks after this appearance.

You have no idea. He died shortly after his TV appearance. He was a dying man at that point.

Being older he should have known better...but obviously did'nt.

and where is it? the famous wizemuller call is it documented who did it and if it was real or digitally enhanced? nobody knows or will say but this video showing old coot thats not it

Daniel Staples true but still doesn’t beat Weissmuller’s Tarzan Yell

Jason Pellegrin Christopher Lambert also did this in his pretentious portrayal of Tarzan in 1984. How kooky is that?

Daniel Staples Kellan Lutz of Twilight fame played Tarzan in the terrible mocap version, but his Tarzan yell is somehow better than the rest of the character anyway.

Well, I haven't read the books, but I think the yell in the 2016-movie so far is the closest to the descriptions I've heard. This one sounds a bit guttural, too (as it's originally described), but it doesn't really capture the feel of 'blood-curdling' as well as the 2016-version. (and I know this clip is filmed 70 years ago, and I know the actor was the first to ever do a Tarzan call in a movie (despite being a silent film) + the fact that he was old at this point and this was probably the most guttural roar people could make at that time, so the latest in film media may be a bit of an unfair comparison)

Searle wasn't in the 1918 film. He was in "The Son of Tarzan," around 1920-21.

David Eversole oh my bad! KC wasn’t in the first film, so there were three!

fuck you

Adam Shirk *best

Only by about a billion times better. The only Tarzan yell I ever heard that I thought was good was Johnny Weissmuller's.

He never actually did that yell, it was a composite of operatic voices mixed together

+TheSweetone1977 "Weißmüller"

He actually did do that yell. He said it was his own voice and his son and his co-star Maureen O'Sullivan both substantiate that claim.

No Johnny actually did it go to Wikipedia

According to wiki he died only a few months later of heart failure