Arch Oboler traveled to Africa in 1948 to make audio recordings of native peoples. While in Africa, Oboler met William D. Snyder, a 16mm cameraman with his own industrial filmmaking company in Fargo, North Dakota. During their travels throughout Africa, Mr. Snyder shot the African footage that appears in Bwana Devil.
Based on the 1898 Tsavo Lion attacks that were also told in The Ghost and the Darkness.
Bwana Devil was the first American feature film shown using Polaroid's dual-projector 3D system.
First movie released in the 3D film craze of the early 1950s.
Is the first American 3-D movie shot in color.