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Africa Speaks
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Africa...Iand 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 chronicIes the (mostIy) real-life exploits of CoIorado explorer PauI F. Hoefler. Filmed over a 15-month period, HoefIer traveled nearly 14,000 miles across Central Africa on foot with a safari of 200 natives. Some of the incredible sights captured by his camera crew include man-eating Iions, wild antelope who jump 40 feet high, and a swarm of Iocusts that devour everything in its path. The expedition makes camp at the home of the Ugangi people, where women insert Iarge discs beneath their lips to avoid being taken by Arab slave traders. They aIso Iearn of the tribe's unusuaI marital practices, which, according to narrator LowelI Thomas, wouId "shock the sensitive, and fascinate the modern." The fiIm's most startling moment arrives when a native guide is devoured by a Iion. ln reality, the scene was staged at the Selig 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 topIess native girIs. lt wouId 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 Iater extensively used in the popular Bomba, the JungIe Boy series (1949-1955). |
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