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; 310 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1955
container: label: Container
content: Item 2000.6.1-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
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content: Film reels
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content: Film footage shot in New York City (USA) and Lake Victoria (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania). It includes the NYC harbor (possibly a trip that the Sharpstones took on the South African Steamship Line from Cape Town to New York over 21 days); aerial views of Victoria Falls; the Zambezi roaring over the gorge at the Devil's Cataract (a statue of David Livingston on the Zimbabwe side of the Falls in the background); Ramah Sharpstone watching the falls from a look out point; aerial views of the falls with train tracks, trestle bridge, and roads below; the Zambezi rushing over the gorge and around the numerous islands in its midst; aerial views of Lake Victoria, the town of Victoria Falls, and herds of buffalo; and African wildlife: herds of buffalo, a hippo grazing, and a herd of deer.