In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs created the character of Tarzan who quickly became a global sensation. When the books were first adapted for the big screen in 1918, the resulting film was one of the ...

QUESTION Was Tarzan’s famous call invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the books or by film-makers? Edgar Rice Burroughs described the Tarzan animal cry in Tarzan’s 1912 debut, Tarzan Of The Apes.