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
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (silent black-and-white and color reversal; 600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-1
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This film footage was shot at Kilembe Mine (Uganda). Much of this roll consists of animals in a savannah setting (giraffes, elephants, hyenas, birds, hippos, crocodile, monkeys, wildebeest, zebra, wild boar, and "antelope"). It includes a sign "Elephants have right of way"; a dead giraffe; three instances of white travelers: two men (David Sharpstone and possibly Alf Pugsley, the General Manager of Kilembe Copper Mine, clearing brush from a dirt road so that their auto can pass) and a woman (Ramah Sharpstone, holding a still camera), David Sharpstone filming (at ca. 17:00), and David and Ramah Sharpstone standing with Alf and Patricia Pugsley in front of a car with license plate B10642 (ca. 21:00); a man holding a bag with words "UGANDA" and "MARCH," which probably holds copper and cobalt samples (at ca. 8:40). Of particular interest is the mining sequence at Kilembe mine, which shows open pit or "terraced" mining on a hillside. Shown also are men digging with pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows. The men working at the mine were from the Rokonzo Tribe.