"Journey to Africa"
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content: Sharpstone, David Collier
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content: Smith, Lance Bales
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content: David Collier Sharpstone films
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content: David Collier Sharpstone films / "Journey to Africa"
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content: 2 Film reels (silent color reversal; 870 feet, 16mm)
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content: Item 2000.6.2-1
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Film reels
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content: This film footage was shot in London (UK), Rome (Italy), Entebbe (Uganda), Tororo, Owen Falls Power Development, and Kilembe Mine (Uganda).

Main title: "Journey to Africa" "by Lance Smith". 

A description of the scene follows the intertitles in square brackets.

First Roll Intertitles

"New York to London by Stratocruiser" [a BOAC Stratocruiser, airborne; filming from the windows of the plane; interior shots of the plane with Alfred Pugsley, a female traveling companion, and a stewardess; aerial views including a coastline; and landing]

"London" [static shots of primarily buildings, monuments, the Thames, a military parade, a park, and bombed out World War II ruins]

"London to Entebbe by Hermes" [BOAC plane, aerial views including a coastline]

"Roma" [aerial view of Rome from the plane and while the plane is landing]

"Owen Falls Power Development" [shot of the Owen Falls Dam]

"Owen Falls Dam" [panoramic views of the dam and shoreline, people crossing over the dam on a bridge, African men bathing along the shoreline, ongoing construction, Alfred Pugsley examining a coffee plant, and an African woman posing in front of her mud hut]

"En Route to Kilembe" [aerial shots of the countryside and herds of elephants, Mount Kilimanjaro, and more elephant herds]

"Kilembe Mine" [the mine and its buildings, housing for African miners, a view of the mine from the hillside, African thatched rondavels, a small waterfall, a vehicle traveling along a road carved out of the mountainside, an African navigating the roadway, red soil, a river going towards Lake George, miners and a white man crossing a suspension bridge, equipment moving earth, ants, and skins curing]