Unidentified African Development Story
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1994.14.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
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content: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (13 minutes, black-and-white silent)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film with intertitles. Depicts early development of areas of East Africa. Shows clearing of forested land, dams, and fields of sisal hemp plants. Scenes of African workers in the hemp mills, game animals on the Akamba Game Reserve, the ""Ugonda railroad"". Footage also includes shots of non-westernized Africans with tall headdresses and zebra-striped shields. Scenes in the "native" campsites with cattle, women smoking.  

Legacy Keywords: Agriculture clearing burning Africa ; Developement Africa ; Dams Africa ; Dance dancing Africa ; Camp Africa ; Cordage rope preparation manufacture sisal hemp Africa ; Fauna giraffe monkey zebra Africa ; Game preserves Akamba Game Reserve Africa ; Headdresses headgear Africa ; Railway Ugonda Railroad Africa ; Weaponry shields Africa ; Africa ; East Africa ; Zulu (African people) ; Masai (African people)