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Men of Africa (1940)
Directed by Alexander Shaw
· 28m
A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire. A tribal dance hints at the "life of fear and uncertainty" replaced by British rule, a village's "squalor" the need for continued war on "ignorance, poverty and disease." "Much can be achieved by money and the initiative of the White Man:" film hints at hydro-electric schemes, modern harbours (Mombasa), roads, bridges etc and illustrates in more detail hospital expansion; tsetse fly research and control; relieving malnutrition; agricultural improvement; education (primary school; Makerere College)." - Abridged version of synopsis on colonialfilm.org
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Alexander Shaw
- Producer
- Basil Wright
Details
- Release date
- 1940-09-01
- Runtime
- 28m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Swahili
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Strand Productions