As a kid in the '70s, 6 or 7 yrs old, I would not miss these reruns on the weekends. Jane's outfit was mesmerizing.

I'm SO glad this remained in the film. This uncensored scene is an important part of cinematic history.

Now let's be honest here, does beaver ever get old ? I think after all these years it looks pretty good to me.

Johnny Weismuller had a dive shop in Malibu CA in the early Seventies. He purchased equipment, parts, and supplies from my employer. He was a big guy. He loved to talk about his days as an Olympian and as an actor. He could go on for hours somewhat to the consternation of the management. Easy to see why he liked acting so much.

Considering both actors were wearing a flap, how did Tarzan avoid walking around with a hard on the entire time? She was a strikingly lovely lady, and basic human biology doesn’t always listen to the brain.

Johnny W. was the best Tarzan in my opinion. These 2 together made the best movies for sure!

I grew up watching these shows! It was awesome seeing this! When I was a kid, I never noticed 🤷‍♀️

This is lockdown. Me looking at 85 year old beaver shots.

That wasn’t Sullivan doing the nude swimming scene. It was Olympic Swimmer Josephine McKim. That risky scene was originally cut from the film for years until was discovered in the Tarzan vault and added to the movie. From what I read Sullivan’s loincloth costumes got bigger and covered more because she was always pregnant and it had to be hidden.

My boyfriend and I tried that catch-out-of-a-tree stunt once (0:25). It wasn't my idea. But we both decided never to try it again. I told him before he jumped that I wasn't going to be able to catch him.

Digital filmakers take note of the lighting, filters and film stock all working together to make those closeups so beautiful. An art form.

This may, or may not, have been an oversight. There are plenty of stories of censors watching films and, when something like this was about to happen, someone from the studio would offer the censor a cigar. Distracted, the moment would pass without being noticed by the censor and the film being ok'd for distribution.

Was it any wonder who the best Hollywood Jane was? While other actresses played the role, none impressed more than Maureen O'Sullivan, especially in the second MGM Tarzan feature, Tarzan and His Mate, released before the coming of the Production Code. In fact, it was the last film, supposedly, to come out before the P.C. was enforced. The loincloth bikini shocked many in 1934, although Miss O'Sullivan, in an interview years later, admitted that she had fun with the costume. But scantily clad Jane was not the only unprecedented feat Ms. O'Sullivan accomplished in the movies. In 1965's, It's Never Too Late, she played a woman in her 50's who has a baby for the first time. Mia Farrow's mother and Ronan Farrow's grandmother is so greatly missed. Thank you for sharing the video.

OMG, IT REALLY DID HAPPEN. 😮 My husband told me about this but I thought it might've been wishful thinking of a pre-teen boy years ago. But nope, there it was. 😆

The scene where Jane shoots the oncoming lion is intense! I know that Maureen O'Sullivan did not actually shoot a lion, but it sure looked like someone did!

Tarzan and His Mate released April 1934 was probably the last film under the wire before the tougher enforcement of the Production Code by the Breen Office starting July1, 1934. That change had already been announced before "Mate" came out. A stronger cause of the tightening of the rules was Cecil B. DeMille's Sign of the Cross from 1932 which bothered various religious groups for various reasons

Maureen O'Sullivan was one truely beautiful woman.

Maureen O' Sullivan was a living doll.....Wonderful as Jane !!

As a child in the 60s I used to watch these old Tarzan movies frequently. Loved them. Always waiting for that glorious Tarzan yell and all of the jungle's animals to come running! lol.

Surprisingly nice trim for the era. White sidewalls and all. I would have expected full schwarzwald tort.

One of my all time favorite Tarzan movies. Thank you.

I distinctly remember seeing this movie & her nether regions on TV when I was a kid. And immediately I thought: they showing that on regular TV?!?!🤣😅😃 Thanks for the upload!!

The uncensored parts were the most personal communication to the audience that touched them more emotionally >>> Thank You So Much for Preserving the Original Uncensored reel of Tarzan & Jane for the Generations to come >>> 🕯🌷🌿🌍💖

At least we know the carpet matched the drapes

It is amazing what old filmmakers could get away with if they placed a scene in a jungle or tropical setting. The ol’ National Geographic standard? You bet!

After looking into some of her film clips she was most likely closely trimmed unless she was sporting a special haircut for a special occasion. Don't forget the liberated pre-Hayes era was a result of worldly new experiences of both male soldiers and female nurses returning from The Great War or World War One on the European continent. The pre-Hayes era was likely a cool time to have lived: with the war being over, the onset of prohibition, the repeal of prohibition, the end of silent pictures and the dawn of talkies, the Zigfield Follies, Burlesque and Jazz. Likely, the Ziegfield Girls should receive first credit for those commercial closely trimmed down-there-haircuts. Whether back-in-the-day or today Maureen O'Sullivan was a total hottie and she really seemed to have a great can-do attitude as she went on to birth and to raise seven children.

The movie was released early 1934 and therefore it is a pre-code film. The Hayes code of strickt censorship took effect on April 29 1934! Suggestive scene from that movie is also the scene in the tend with Jane trying on nylon stockings in front of the amazed Tarzan.

Lots of animals in this movie, including a beaver.

I was just in Silver Springs State Park (Florida) where it and other Tarzan movies were filmed. Some of the backdrops are still there after nearly 90 years. Those Tarzan movies were risque' for the 30s, but I don't think the movie censors really started clamping down on them until the 1940s.

Wow, I've seen that movie several times, but never caught that scene before. Good catch. She sure was a good looking woman! Frankly, I think it's nuts to worry about censoring a scene like this. There just wasn't anything to "see" and the way she's dressed, it seems just perfectly natural, no pun intended!

Jane always told Tarzan, 'don't worry about the rescue plane, I've got a landing strip he can't miss"!

Only one Jane and one Tarzan.These two. Loved these movies when i was a kid, and still love them now.Seen the nude swim before but missed the peep show!

Sometimes you miss the forest for the trees; sometimes you miss the bush for the bush.

I get the feeling Johnny got a better look at it than we did.

Used to watch these Tarzan and Jungle Jim movies on Saturday nights with my brother many moons ago. We'd stay up until 2-3 o'clock in the morning. Good memories.

The Skinny Dipping Scene was done by body double Jacqueline Kim. Miss Kim was a member of the 1928 & 1932 US Olympic Teams for Swimming, She won a gold medal in 1932 as part of the 4x100 relay team.

Indeed !! Tarzan was a mighty blessed man to have Jane.....Weissmuller and O'sullivan were the PERFECT Tarzan and Jane......never to be topped.

The flash really contributes to the authenticity of the scene. I love it 🙂

0:28 Wow that special effect is amazing, considering it's 1934.

Looks like a landing strip, surprising for a time when big bush was the norm!

Me enamore de Maureen O' Sullivan, desde que la vi en las películas de Tarzan. Junto con el portentoso Johnny Weissmuller hacían una pareja perfecta, en su mundo tan salvaje como hermoso, mostrándonos esa maravillosa expresión de una casi de total libertad rodeada de peligros. Para aquellos tiempos, Maureen se mostrava tan natural como encantadora, lucía limpia y sin tapujos. La combinación de los dos protagonistas fue tan explosiva como exitosa, apesar de pasar por el filtro de la censura. Hoy, he descubierto muchas cosas, muchos detalles encubiertos de aquellas películas, que evidentemente, a la vista de un niño de mi época pasaban sin percibirse, como el trasfondo de comentarios, y muchos hechos deplorables sobre los hombres de piel oscura. Apesar de todo esto, sigue gratamente en mi recuerdo las miradas y los abrazos afectuosos de aquellos dos que como Adán y Eva mostraban, se mostraban un verdadero amor 💘 Saludos desde Barcelona, España 🙋

For any of you who ever doubted Tarzan was always "in the bush" there's your proof.

I love those old Tarzan movies, they are great.

my favorite film--thanks to film historians for getting the whole uncut original back.

Of all the actresses who've ever played Jane, Maureen O'Sullivan is the most delightful.

Forget about Marilyn, Ava, Rita or even the very Gene Tierney. The sexiest woman ever appearing in a film was Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan and his mate. That it was a pre-code of course helps.

This was a "pre code" movie, censorship was non-existent before 1930 and not enforced until around 1934.

Josephine McKim, a member of the USA Olympic swim team, did the “nude” swim. Actually, she had a nude body suit on. Maureen O’Sullivan admitted she couldn’t do the swim scene because she had phobias about putting her head in the water.

A great film moment discovery!! Keep em' coming!

I used to watch these movies on Suday afternoons in the '60's... so much fun!

The bush is surprisingly well-trimmed. .

I adored these as my Saturday morning films as a kid. I thought Maureen was wonderful, without realising she was actually my grandmothers generation! Mother, of course, to Mia Farrow. What a beauty she was, and 23 years old here. The Hayes code stifled the maturity and creativity of Hollywood for a long time.

Once pause, slow, and rewind features were first introduced people started finding little things like this. 🤪

To quote the two(actually "one") guys on the screen rant pitch meetings; "WHOOPS, WHOOPSIE""..Lol.

What a beautiful moment in cinematic history.

Maureen was damn fine though.

I never knew that wild ‘beaver’ can be found in the African jungle 🤤😋🤤😋🤤😋 such a nicely trimmed beaver too

Maureen O’Sullivan, for my taste the most beautiful Jane ever!

well that is another one ticked off my bucket list i have now seen Maureen O'Sullivan's growler.

Being a 4th generation Oregonian...I will go with the saying "Save a tree, eat a beaver!" No... 🦫 beavers never get old. Oregon, the Beaver State!!

The Tarzan DVD collection includes the uncensored scene of Jane swimming underwater in the nude.

just imagine "trimming the bush" with one of those straight razors of the day!

These scenes are in modern DVDs. Saw a interview with her late in her life. She wasn't embarrassed by them at all.

Love these old movies. Blasting endangered species every other shot. And the glimpse of muff to boot. Class.

I have never seen this movie but now I understand why my uncle was crazy about it 😄😄😄

This takes me back to when I was only a kid and couldn't afford porn, you had to make do with films like this, the Benny Hill Show, Cary On Films, Kenny Everette TV Show, stopping up to watch French films till two in the morning on the portable black and white TV in your bedroom, looking at the women flashing their knickers at Wimbledon when they take a shot, looking at the knickers page in the Kay's catalogue, and if really desperate.....looking up the fairy's dress on top of the Christmas tree....!

Outstanding work ! Keep TCM alive.

I've watched this movie, many times, for that scene.

According to another video here on KZfaq, the underwater portion of the nude swimming scene was not actually done by Maureen O'Sullivan. Ms. O'Sullivan was NOT troubled by the nude swimming, but she had a problem with claustrophobia {or something similar}, which made swimming underwater for her extremely difficult. Due to THAT, they used a body double -- IIRC it was a woman who was an Olympic swimmer -- to film the scene.

It was surprisingly trimmed.

Btw in Tarzan and his mate, the nude swim was not Maureen It was a female Olympic swimming champion who had zero issues with being nude on camera. Josephine McKim, who competed in the 1928 games with Johnny Weissmuller, dance a graceful underwater ballet with Jane completely nude. When she rises out of the water, Jane (now Maureen ) flashes a bare breast. I grew up on Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan. I loved those damned movies. They were one reason I started studying History and cultures and later became a History professor.

Johnny Weissmuller was the best Tarzan actor ever.

Back in the early 60's Tarzan was the feature movie on Whirlpool Theater on Saturday afternoons.

As a little kid, I always wondered why I was so attracted to Tarzan movies... and it wasn't his clothes that made it special.

I first saw this movie back in the early 70s and yes, I saw it. Wondered why they left it in.

the underwater swim was not by Maureen O'Sullivan--her double was an Olympic swimmer friend of Johnny--you can see how much more athletic the double's body is

I don't know why, but seeing this clip triggered my memory of Julie Newmar where she was a giant women or something - but I remember that outfit she wore stomping through the town! I was about 8-10 years old and knew something was special! And saying this further reminded me of Juliet Prowse who I was determined to marry! Even my Mom kidded me about her saying "your wife is on TV" HAHA Too bad I'm 70 years old ...😪 too many memories and too old of a body ...

Awesome-I had the biggest crush on Maureen -when I was a kid- and still do! 😆😁

Edgar Rice Burrows Tarzan books began in 1912 , my dads birth year. Grew up enthralled with Tarzan the ape man and pretty little Jane, the minx.

I don't really care what you can see or can't see. The overall look I loved and she was a great "jane" and a great actress I watched often while growing up in the '60's when she seemed to be in everything back then.

Acting like a teenage boy trying to pause it just right, for a good long look!!😂

So that's why Tarzan spent so much time deep in the bush.

That was a pretty nice trimmed patch, considering they can let everything loose back in those days.

"We have bush! We have bush!" - Booger

It's funny that there are 200 billion graphic nude images on the internet; yet millions came here for a shadowy glimpse of a hint of a naughty bit in an old black and white film. We never outgrow being children...

That's a very intriguing clip and commentary you posted. We'll done keep up your discerning work...🖤😊😍

Men of culture, we meet again, appreciating the film classics together.

I came here for the historical education.

Not a clickbait! Finally!

Got this movie taped off the satellite dish years ago and I'd always play this part in slow motion and pause,pretty yummy 😋 for back then 🤪

“Me Tarzan, you Jane” best pickup line ever.

Ah yes. As a young 11, 12 year old I went to every Tarzan and Indian movie that came to town back in the 50's because I was VERY interested in what was going on under those loin cloths.

What great memories watching the Tarzan movies when I was a kid on Saturday morning. This clip gives new meaning to the African Bush. Thanks for sharing your pirated clips LoL.

Bestest Tarzan & Jane ever! Loved it as a child

Maureen O' Sullivan's daughter Mia Farrow did some great works in Cinema as well didn't she? My favorite love scenes in all films! Tarzan and his Mate!

Maybe because the scene was quite fast and the picture was black and white that the censors didn't notice Jane's forbidden zone being exposed

looked like the lawn was trimmed to me !

Growing up in the 50s and 60s these movies were a favorite when I was a kid.

The nude (and quite lengthy) swimming scene DID make it to the released movie.

No lions, (or beavers), were hurt in the making of this film! 🤓