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; 270 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-5
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: This film footage was shot in Kilembe Mine (Uganda). To 3:34 it seems to be same as 2000.6.1-4, with white houses (thatched roof traditional African rondvels and colonial style thatched or tiled roof houses belonging to mine workers and employees) and a man drumming with dancing. 
A games day organized by the mine managers begins at 3:35; the competitors and performers are mine workers, members of the Bakonzo tribe (a Bantu people). The celebration includes a sack race, balancing a bottle on the head, and a stilt race; men in a group, jumping, mock combat, and dancing; white onlookers, one with a still camera; the mine managers watching the competitions; an African child holding a tray approaching one man (possibly Alfred Edward Pugsley, Managing Director of the mine) who picks something up off the tray; and this same man handing out prizes for the competitions.