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; 400 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-3
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 Stoneycroft Farm and Connemara Mine (Zimbabwe). It includes various family scenes, including footage of Alexandra Sharpstone and her mother Ramah on Christmas at Stoneycroft farm, Ramah and her friend Bagglia Gasson, Alexandra with her father David, Alexandra with the family's nanny, three of the family's five dogs, Alexandra with the family's Zulu employees and their children, and several guests of the Sharpstone family (Dr. Pat Gasson, Bagglia Gasson, possibly Dr. Arnold, possibly Sam Coulter, John Gasson (O.B.E.), Douggie Gasson, and Ramah's mother Esther Ingersoll Crystal); the annual Christmas party at Connemara Mine with entertainment organized by the mine owners and managers, including men from Connemara barracks in uniform, dancers and their marching band called the Springboks, families associated with the mine watching their performance, single dancers doing a version of the cake walk and couples doing the waltz and jitterbug in front of the Connemara Mines bus, the witchdoctor (wearing a costume of rags) and his entourage (two men in western clothes dancing with hip gyrations), and the Springbok band with painted faces playing guitars, banjo, sax, and drum; and footage of the family farm, Stoneycroft, including scenes of Alexandra and William playing with a watering can and pail in the dirt while watched by Ramah, her mother Esther, and Jane Gasson.