The .avi file is corrupted in the last six minutes. Someone uploaded it in 2007 with the filename: TARZAN_1999_DUB_UNKNOWN.avi The description is blank. The uploader’s handle is @jungle_dubber .
The video begins with a warped Disney logo — not the official one, but a hand-drawn castle melting into pixel static. A date burns in: . Not the 1999 Disney Tarzan with Phil Collins. No — this is something else. A direct-to-VHS production by a studio called “Golden Films” or perhaps “DIC” — but the credits are smudged, like VHS tracking errors made permanent. tarzan 1999 internet archive
“I am not ape. I am not man. I am… sad for my banana.” The video begins with a warped Disney logo
But here’s the strange part: Around 17 minutes in, the audio switches to a different language. Not Spanish or French. Something unidentifiable — maybe a lost Esperanto dub recorded in a basement in Prague. The subtitles are broken English, translated by someone guessing: No — this is something else
You click play.
The Internet Archive preserved this because no one else would. 47 people have downloaded it since 2007. The comments section is a slow-motion ghost town: “I watched this as a kid in a dentist’s waiting room.” “Does anyone know who voiced the leopard?” “The last six minutes are missing. I’ve been trying to find them for 12 years.” You scroll down. One comment from 2023: “I found a Betamax copy at a church sale in Ohio. The ending is just Tarzan driving a Ford Taurus into the sunset. Jane says ‘Let’s get Taco Bell.’ I am not joking.” But that video file isn’t online. Only the corrupted one remains.
