Save the Flying Monkeys

The following footage was found in a footlocker at the retired Glendale Police Department’s Detective Griffin Scott’s Los Feliz home shortly after his death 2023 by his granddaughter Debra Scott.

Researchers at the Smithsonian have determined that the film was shot in the Huaguo Mountain Range, Jiangsu Province, China, circa 1928.

It is shocking footage that confirms the much debated history, origin and even the existence of the famed “Flying Monkeys.”

The gentlemen in the film from left to right are Antonin Harsanje, a Local Hungarian Mercenary; Sid or “Butch” Trafalgar, a Guide, and part of a Security detail,

Myles Ellsworth, a visiting Property Master, from MGM Studios and lastly Professor Thomas Worthington, also a Guide, but with the National Geographic Society.

All of these men are dead. Harsanje and Trafalgar were found murdered in Hong Kong later that year. Professor Worthington fell overboard on the ship headed for Los Angeles, months after this footage was taken. Only Myles Ellsworth survived, but mysteriously died in the early 1950’s.

The mystery is what was Myles up to between 1928 and his passing. We only know he worked in the movie business, was listed in the credits for The Wizard of OZ and was survived by his wife Desiree Ellsworth, a famous singer during the war. She disappeared in 1954.

Little is known of the connection between Detective Scott and the Ellsworth’s.

Debra Scott has made no further comments on the situation and did not disclose why she released the footage. Her only statement was…

“Save the Flying Monkeys”