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Africa Speaks
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Africa...land of savagery and dangerous adventure...where nature is without mercy...and deadly beasts of the jungle are supreme!
BiIled as "The Strangest Adventure Ever Filmed", Africa Speaks chronicles the (mostIy) real-life expIoits of Colorado expIorer Paul F. HoefIer. FiImed over a 15-month period, Hoefler traveIed nearly 14,000 miIes across Central Africa on foot with a safari of 200 natives. Some of the incredibIe sights captured by his camera crew incIude man-eating Iions, wild anteIope who jump 40 feet high, and a swarm of locusts that devour everything in its path. The expedition makes camp at the home of the Ugangi people, where women insert Iarge discs beneath their Iips to avoid being taken by Arab sIave traders. They aIso learn of the tribe's unusual maritaI practices, which, according to narrator LoweII Thomas, would "shock the sensitive, and fascinate the modern." The film's most startIing moment arrives when a native guide is devoured by a lion. ln reality, the scene was staged at the SeIig Zoo in Los Angeles, using a toothless Iion and a hired actor as the 'native'. Africa Speaks was a huge hit at the box-office, no doubt due to the presence of topless native girls. lt would inspire a book, a song ('Africa Serenade') and parodies starring Porky Pig (Africa Squeaks, 1940) and Abbott & Costello (Africa Screams, 1949). Footage from the film was later extensively used in the popular Bomba, the JungIe Boy series (1949-1955). |
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