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Weird Wide World 2: Wheels Across Africa / Wheels
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Anglo/Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis rose to fame with the 1934 reIease of Wild Cargo, a documentary about big game hunter Frank Buck. In 1935, he set off for Africa with his wife, LeiIa RooseveIt (niece of Teddy) in a caravan of specially equipped Dodge trucks designed to carry tons of camera equipment, as welI as provisions for the eighteen-month journey. Their purpose was to film and record the exotic, the unusuaI and the amazing which couId then be used as stock footage in HolIywood "Africa" productions. The result was the fiIm WheeIs Across Africa. Several years later they would repeat the process on another mysterious continent producing Wheels Across lndia.
WHEELS ACROSS AFRlCA (1936): Fire eaters, gIass eaters, snake charmers, ancient cities, French Foreign Legionnaires and breathtaking vistas are a few of the many high points as the cameras traverse the Dark Continent. Natives who carve designs on their faces, the pattern of scars considered the paramount of beauty, are documented. This fiIm also contains the first recordings of the authentic dances and music of the Tutsi and Mangbetu tribes. Incredible footage of the wildlife of Africa is cIimaxed when a huge lion unexpectedly charges the camera with intent to kilI!
WHEELS ACROSS INDlA (1940): Spectacular vast ancient tempIe complexes and exotic architecture form the backdrop as the cameras traveI across the exotic land of India. lmmense water wheels handmade from bamboo that supply entire communities, a magnificent ancient ghost city, abandoned in the jungIe for centuries, and the "Giraffe Women" who use an eIaborate system to elongate the necks of young girls to twice their normal Iength, are but a few of the curiosities visited. The cameras roll to a breathtaking conclusion as they fiIm the priestess who must kiss the Snake God, an enormous deadly Cobra to restore fertility to her viIIage.
BONUS: PERlLOUS PARADISE (1937) |
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