India: Kingdom of the Tiger India: Kingdom of the Tiger India: Kingdom of the Tiger is a 2002 IMAX documentary, based on the writings of Jim Corbett. The film was directed by Bruce Neibaur. It depicts man-eating tigers and the conservation efforts of the tiger in India. The plot is loosely connected to the documental stories published in Jim Corbett's 1944 bestselling book "Man-Eaters of Kumaon". The narrator of the film is Jim Corbett (portrayed by Christopher Heyerdahl) Corbett is asked to kill a man-eating tiger, which killed a young woman in Kumaon. Corbett arrives at Kumaon and meets with local people. The sister of
Seeing the elephant entitled "Seeing the Elephant," says the phrase came from a Philadelphia theatre "a few years" earlier. A play their theater was putting on was in need of an elephant but the few circulating circus elephants were not available and so they made a makeshift elephant and put a man inside to control the few movements the animal had to make. The audiences loved it and were extremely responsive. Unfortunately, the man they put inside was fond of his spirits, and one night he became so drunk he walked the elephant off the stage and into the music pit. The audience