Sharpstone Film Footage of Africa
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sharpstone, David Collier
label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Lance Bales
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content: David Collier Sharpstone films
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content: David Collier Sharpstone films / Sharpstone Film Footage of Africa
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content: 1 Film reel (silent color reversal; 450 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images
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content: Film reels
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content: Film footage was shot in Kilembe (Uganda) and Kasese Airport, Kasese Station Extension Stirling Astaldi (Uganda). It includes domestic scenes outside the workers' homes (brick whitewashed homes with tiled roofs and brick homes with thatched roofs) in the Kilembe mining town (the Sharpstones lived in one of the whitewashed houses on a slope); signs: "Compound office" and "Uganda Police Kilembe"; Africans in police uniforms; more whitewashed homes; a sign: "East African Airways Kasese Airport"; a plane that has landed with white men and woman deplaning; a sign: "Kilembe Mines Ltd Brick and Tile Works"; a mine and men working, white men surveying hillside, lush landscape, mountains, mining activities, and Ramah and Alexandra standing on a lookout point by water/river and on hillside; a sign: "Mweya Safari lodge" which is overlooking a lake; The Sharpstones and friends on the steps of the lodge; a sign: "Kilembe Mines Main Office"; a series of low brick buildings with tiled roofs (the Kilembe Mines offices); 1950s cars and jeeps; a dirt road with street lights; engineers, geologists, and possibly architects gathering outside a building; a sign: "Kilembe Mines Ltd Mubuku hydro electric project 8 miles, E.L. Bateman Ltd general contractors…" (they provided engineering and contracting services to the mining and chemical industries); more shots around Kilembe; the Kilmebe Mines Hospital with doctors, nurses, and patients outside; a sign: "E.A.R. and H Western Uganda Extension Kasese Station Contractor Stirling Astaldi P.O. Box 796 Kampala"; David, Ramah, and Alexandra Sharpstone; and a group of the local mine managers, employees and their wives socializing on a covered verandah (possibly what was known as the Kilembe club) and playing ping pong and pool inside.