LITHUANIA: KING OF THE JUNGLE, ALGIMANTAS ARCIMAVICHIUS, KNOWN AS TARZANAS LIVES IN THE FOREST IN THE ANYKSCIAI REGION.
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LITHUANIA: KING OF THE JUNGLE, ALGIMANTAS ARCIMAVICHIUS, KNOWN AS TARZANAS LIVES IN THE FOREST IN THE ANYKSCIAI REGION.
- Title: LITHUANIA: KING OF THE JUNGLE, ALGIMANTAS ARCIMAVICHIUS, KNOWN AS TARZANAS LIVES IN THE FOREST IN THE ANYKSCIAI REGION.
- Date: 15th June 2004
- Summary: (CEEF) VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (RECENT - JUNE 13, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SCU: TARZANAS BELLOWING. 0.08 2. LAS: TARZANAS' FEET WALKING ON SUSPENDED TREE TRUNK BEAM. 0.16 3. VARIOUS: TARZANAS WALKS OFF SUSPENDED TREE TRUNCK BEAM, TURNS, BEATING CHEST AND BELLOWING. 0.21 4. TRACK: TARZANAS SWINGING THROUGH FOREST. (2 SHOTS) 0.30 5. LAS: TREEHOUSE. 0.32 6. TILT U; FROM ANIMAL BONES ON GROUND TO ANIMAL HORN CANES. 0.35 7. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) 62 YEAR-OLD ALGIMANTAS (PRONOUNCED AL-GEE-MANTAS) ARCIMAVICHIUS (AR-TSEE-MAV-EE-CHUS, AKA TARZANAS, SAYING: (After seeing the Tarzan films) everyone was jumping and flying between the trees. Ten years later, everyone forgot this stuff, but I never forgot." 0.43 8. CU: KITTENS OUTSIDE HUT. 0.45 9. VARIOUS: TARZANAS WALKING THROUGH JUNGLE WITH AXE. (3 SHOTS) 0.58 10. SCU: TARZANAS BEATING HIS CHEST. 1.00 11. MV: TEENAGERS COPYING TARZANAS AND BEATING THEIR CHESTS. 1.06 12. VARIOUS: TARZANAS SHOWING TEENAGERS HOW TO BREAK STICKS. 1.09 13. TRACK: TEENAGER SWINGING IN TREES. 1.24 14. VARIOUS: TARZANAS CLIMBING TREE. (2 SHOTS) 1.41 15. VATIOUS: TARZANAS SWINGING THROUGH FOREST. (2 SHOTS) 1.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 30th June 2004 13:00
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- Location: ANYKSCIAI, LITHUANIA
- Country: Lithuania
- Reuters ID: LVA5CEMNY2558SNJSJP7ND4FA5K2
- Story Text: Lithuania's very own King of the Jungle, Tarzanas,
swings into action through the trees of the Anyksciai
forests.
Swinging through the trees with the greatest of
ease, his mighty bellow echoing through the foliage,
sixty-two year-old Algimantas Arcimavichius has spent the
last 30 summers in the forests of Lithuania.
For the last few years, Arcimavichius has gone under
the guise of "Tarzanas", living in a hut in the Anyksciai
region and spending his summer days in a loincloth as
Lithuania's very own King of the Jungle.
Arcimavichius decided to take to the forests in 1952,
when he saw the movie "Tarzan", starring Johnny
Weissmuller, the most famous and fondly remembered of the
many celluloid Tarzans. June marks the 100th anniversary of
Wissmuller's birth.
"(After seeing the Tarzan films) everyone was jumping
and flying between the trees. Ten years later, everyone
forgot this stuff, but I never forgot," Arcimavichius said.
When he is not swinging on branches and chopping wood,
Tarzanas teaches teenagers the ways of the forest and
allows them to fly on his rope rides through the trees, the
longest of which is about 200 metres.
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