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 black-and-white and color reversal; 510 feet, 16mm)
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content: circa 1946-1955
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content: Item 2000.6.1-6
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 Kilembe Mine (Uganda) and at the Owen Falls Hydro-Electric Plant (Uganda). It includes Bakonzo mine workers dancing and chanting, two men enacting some form of combat, African men in pith helmets in chairs viewing the dancing, a man playing a stringed instrument and chanting, and a man shaking a gourd and chanting; driving along a road in a lush area of Uganda; David Sharpstone with a group of Batwa and another group of Batwa (possibly poachers) carrying elephant tusks; and on the return to Kilembe, the Rwenzori Mountains and a sign: "Kilembe", thatched roofs seen along the side of the road, Bakozo carrying baskets and herding goats, kraal, another sign to Kilembe, more Bakozo, lush vegetation, a man posing beside a creek, a man with a walking stick, panoramic shots of the hillsides, and Sharpstone entering one of the brick thatched roof houses (possibly the home office). Here the footage switches to black-and-white and includes a river roaring down the valley, a kraal with thatched roofs and curious inhabitants dressed in traditional and western dress, a man coming out of a mine entrance in the hillside, and Ramah Sharpstone standing with another person. The footage then shifts to the dedication of the Owen Falls Hydro-Electric dam in 1954 by Queen Elizabeth II, showing her arrival with Prince Philip (then the Duke of Edinburgh), footage of the dam and the crowds present, and Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret at the opening ceremony and receiving a tour of the inside of the power plant by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Cohen, K.C.M.G.