After an initial career cutting and editing films, Futter began writing and producing his own shorts and movies, often using footage he acquired.

They bought up bankrupt stock and film made by amateurs and the venture proved successful, earning them the nickname "the junk-men of filmdom".

[1] Futter headed the firm Diversion Pictures, which had a library of 8mm and 16mm film and a reversible processing laboratory.

It is said to differ from all other films of its type inasmuch as it is not only a stirring jungle adventure but also an emotional romance of the lives, loves and hates between man and beast in a primitive land.

The story stretches across the heart of the Congo, picturing weird customs, wild dances, age-old rituals to heathen gods and a panorama of heretofore hidden secrets of the dark continent.

It captured scenes and sounds of wildlife and religious rites and cultural practices of various peoples, like the Maasai and Iti tribes.

In 1932, he released India Speaks,[8] starring world traveler and adventurer Richard Halliburton in which many of the scenes were shot at Yosemite and Griffith Park in California.

[15][16][6] Paul Robeson, Wallace Ford, and Henry Wilcoxon starred in his film Dark Sands, also called Jericho (1937), which was made in Britain.