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Osa Johnson, born Osa Helen Leighty (Kansas, March 14, 1894 - New York, January 7, 1953) was an adventurer, naturalist, writer, and photographer. American who ―together with her first husband, Martin Johnson (whom she married in 1910)― toured the Solomon Islands, Borneo and Africa filming indigenous people and wildlife in the places they visited.

Precursors of the ethnographic documentary. In 1915 they made the first sound film made entirely in Africa, entitled Simba, based on their own experiences, which premiered in New York. They were the first to use the airplane to film wildlife and the first to film hostile wild tribes in the South Seas and Borneo.

Looking for a space where hunting safaris had not arrived, they discovered Paradise Lake in northern Kenya, where they settled, founding a real city with electricity, water and bathrooms in the houses, just as Osa would describe it in Four Years in the Paradise. An adventure financed by George Eastman owner of the Kodak company.

She last traveled to Africa as an adviser to The Lost Explorer. She died of a heart attack on January 7, 1953 at the age of 59.

Major Documentaries

Osa with mbuti pygmies in the jungles of the Congo.

• Wonders of the Congo (1931)
• Congorilla (1932);Full film in the Congo; Released on 7 August 1932
• Wings Over Africa (1934)
• Baboona (1935)
• Children of Africa: educational film (1937)
• Jungle Depths of Borneo (1937)
• Borneo (documentary) (1937)
• Jungles Calling (1937)
• I Married Adventure (1940)
• African Paradise (1941)
• Tulagi and the Solomons (1943)
• Big Game Hunt (1950s, for television)

Main books

• "Jungle Babies" (1930)
• "Jungle Pets" (1932)
• "Osa Johnson's Jungle Friends" (1939)
• "I Married Adventure; The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson" (1940)
• "Pantaloons; Adventures of a Baby Elephant"; (941)
• "Four Years in Paradise" (1941)
• "Snowball; Adventures of a Young Gorilla" (1942)
• "Bride in the Solomons" (1944)
• "Tarnish; Adventures of a Young Lion" (1944)
• "Last Adventure; The Martin Johnsons in Borneo" (1966)
• "The Adventure of My Life" (2015)