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Tarzan and Jane (or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane) is an animated television series, produced by Arad Animation, 41 Entertainment and Arc Productions and is based on the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, a teenaged Tarzan joins forces with a brave city girl called Jane Porter to protect his jungle home f...
Oct 21, 2012 · From the heart of the jungle comes an action-packed, all-new, never-before-seen movie starring Tarzan… and Jane! Alive with nonstop thrills, irresistible new music, and featuring all your favorite characters from the original Disney hit, the excitement continues in TARZAN and JANE.
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As a young adult, Tarzan meets a young American woman, Jane Porter, who along with her father and others of their party is marooned at exactly the same spot on the African coast where Tarzans parents were twenty years earlier. When she returns to America, he leaves the jungle in search of her, his one true love. In later books, Tarzan and Jane marr...
In Tarzan, Burroughs created an extreme example of a hero figure largely unalloyed with character flaws or faults. He is described as being Caucasian, extremely athletic, tall, handsome, and tanned, with grey eyes and black hair. Emotionally, he is courageous, loyal and steady. He is intelligent and learns new languages easily. He is presented as b...
In contrast to these noble characteristics, Tarzans philosophy embraces an extreme form of return to nature. Although he is able to pass within society as a civilized individual, he prefers to strip off the thin veneer of civilization, as Burroughs often puts it. His preferred dress is a knife and a loincloth of animal hide, his preferred abode is ...
Tarzans primitivist philosophy was absorbed by countless fans, amongst whom was Jane Goodall, who describes the Tarzan series as having a major influence on her childhood. She states that she felt she would be a much better spouse for Tarzan than his fictional wife, Jane, and that when she first began to live among and study the chimpanzees she was...
Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, teen Tarzan joins forces with brave city girl Jane to protect his jungle home from threats. Watch trailers & learn more.
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Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, teen Tarzan joins forces with brave city girl Jane to protect his jungle home from threats. Watch trailers & learn more.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in a series of twenty-four books by him) and John Carter (who was a recurring character in a series of eleven ...