Southern Africa, [1934]
16mm film Colour Silent 1934 16:40
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Summary: The Bird family on holiday in southern Africa
Title number: 21043
LSA ID: LSA/27615
Description: Dufay Color film starts with a street scene in an African town with women, children with baskets on their heads; boys wearing school caps. Panning shots of the street with locals walking, some women with baskets on their heads. A market on steps leading down to a river or beach. Shots of houses with lake in background, tennis courts. At a train station with first class carriages and boys in boys scout uniform. View of houses with thatched roofs. Shot of main road with women with baskets on their heads. Close up shots of same. Close up of local man and woman drinking out of a gourd. Views of street scenes and locals. Shots of colonial style house with garden. Groups of people standing and sitting on the ground, possibly selling their wares. Street scenes continue, horse drawn carts. View down a steep street with lake or coast in the distance. Mrs Bird walking a garden; housing and view to water. Large municipal looking building. Mrs Bird and two boys. View of snow topped mountains in the background. Young woman holding young cheetah in her arms and then on a leash sitting on a boat. View of a harbour [not sure where] from boat. Boys and others playing in swimming pool on boat and other sunbathing alongside the pool. Back to garden scenes and at sea again with sunset. A view of a tugboat and large port [Southampton]- shots from ship.
The colour is excellent.
Credits: Sydney Bird (Filmmaker)
Keywords: African peoples; family holiday; cruise ship
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