Frederick Burnham films of Eastern and Southern Africa
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1985.4.1
name: label: Names
content: Burnham, Frederick Russell, 1861-1947
place: label: Place
content: Africa, East
label: Place
content: Africa, Southern
label: Place
content: Cape Town (South Africa)
label: Place
content: Durban (South Africa)
topic: label: Topic
content: Safaris
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Frederick R. Burnham II in 1985.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (35 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,200 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Burnham Footage of Southern and Eastern Africa 1929."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1985.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Travelogs
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Frederick Burnham films of Eastern and Southern Africa, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Publications referencing this collection.

Richard H. Bradford (Dept. of History, West Virginia Tech). "Frederick Russell Burnham, the British Empire's American Scout". Paper presented at the American Historical Society Annual Meetings, Washington D.C., 1984.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogs
label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage from the Frederick Russell Burnham family trip to southern and eastern Africa in 1929.

Footage shot of travels in South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Zambia and eastern Africa. The trip attempts to retraces Frederick Russel Burnham's earlier trip to Africa in 1893 as a scout for British mining interests. Shots of urban Cape Town, Durban, and Bulawayo and various scenic-historic locations including sites such as the burial place of Cecil Rhodes, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls. Ethnographic footage includes scenes of "rickshaw" drivers in native costumes and headdresses, Zulu (or Matebele?) miners performing a communal dance and mule and oxen trains from the South African mines; Masai (?) tribesmen in native dance. Shots of Safari camp and abundant wildlife.

Legacy keywords: Houses colonial ; Mining mule trains ox trains ; Transportation "rickshaws" ; Dress traditional dress headdress ; Markets urban ; Dancing tribesmen ; Miners emigrant tribesmen ; Monuments Cecil Rhodes ; Boats as transportation ; Herding goats ; Ruins archeological ; Language and culture ; Africa ; South Africa ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; Durban (South Africa) ; Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe ; Kenya ; Victoria Falls ; Tangyanyika ; Zulu (African people) ; Masai (African people) ; Metabele (NDabele)

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