Trivia

Is the first American 3-D movie shot in color.

"Bwana Devil" was the first American feature film shown using Polaroid's dual-projector 3-D system.

Based on the 1898 Tsavo Lion attacks that were also told in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).

The film is notable for sparking the first 3-D film craze in the motion picture industry, as well as for being the first 3-D film in color and the first 3-D sound feature in English.

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.