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 color reversal; 300 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
label: Type
content: Film reels
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The two rolls were assembled by the archivist for digitization. Film, or section of film, is flipped.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film footage was shot in Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) and possibly Kenya. Includes dupes of 2000.6.1-7 and 2000.6.1-4.

The first film roll includes a sea plane landing, white men in uniform debarking a boat followed by other white western men and women; the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, a western woman at the edge drawing, and a rainbow in mist; a giraffe, zebra and other African wildlife; an aerial view of Victoria Falls, flat lands, and the Blue Mountains; the grounds of Victoria Falls Hotel; mountains (possiblty the Rwenzori Mountains) shrouded in clouds at the summit; and elephants and other African wildlife. It may have been on this trip that David Sharpstone was chased by an enraged bull elephant but was saved when Ramah Sharpstone drove the jeep out to meet him. 

The second film roll includes the Zambezi River; cars stopped along a road waiting for a ferry barge being poled across the river (a license plate is reversed- the film is flipped); Ramah, a passenger in the lead car, talking to a policeman; the cars leaving the ferry; a building under construction with Ramah, two of Sharpstone's friends, and a young black man posing in front; the Sharpstones and their friends exiting another ferry; travelling along a dirt road; Ramah pulling something out of a hillock; a high waterfall, landscapes, and a stream; two African men posing, then four men, and then two men with one African woman (they may be Masai).