Paul Travis African travel footage, 1927-1928 ; AF-89.17.1-1 à 4
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Travis Paul (1898-1975) ;
- Editeurs : [Washington, D.C.] Smithsonian Institution ;
- Date d'édition : 1927
- Sujets : Danse -- DVD -- Afrique du Sud, Ethnologie, Afrique -- Découverte et exploration -- DVD, Archives audiovisuelles, Films ethnographiques
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD (2 h 06 min), : N. et bl., video, muet
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Human studies Film Archives-Smithsonian Institution, : Africa.
Notes
Guide de la collection Human Studies Film Archives ; Http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=paul+travis+african
Résumé
Footage Travis shot while on sabbatical leave from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Film documents his travels along the 'Cape-to-Cairo' route begun by Cecil Rhodes. Footage includes: street scenes in Cape Town and indigenous dwellings along the South African train route; street scenes in Mombassa, Kenya; Mt. Kilamanjaro in Tanganyika (Tanzania); Hindu stone masons in Nairobi, Kenya; scenes in the Kikuyu Native Reserve; a Lumbwa harvest dance and Christmas service; Tutsi war dance at Billingyama, Ruanda; Africans (probably Nyoro) poling canoes on Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda; colonial labor parties on roadwork in the Belgian Congo (Zaire); Mangbetu chief in feathered headdress at Ekibondi Village; Pygmy dance sequences; Congo elephant farm at Dungu, Belgian Congo; and street scenes and bazaars in Cairo, Egypt. Archive filmique numérisée par la Smithsonian Institution (Human Studies Film Archives)