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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 release of Wild Cargo, a documentary about big game hunter Frank Buck. ln 1935, he set off for Africa with his wife, Leila Roosevelt (niece of Teddy) in a caravan of specially equipped Dodge trucks designed to carry tons of camera equipment, as weII 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 HoIIywood "Africa" productions. The resuIt was the fiIm WheeIs Across Africa. Several years later they wouId repeat the process on another mysterious continent producing WheeIs Across India.
WHEELS ACROSS AFRICA (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 wildIife of Africa is cIimaxed when a huge lion unexpectedly charges the camera with intent to kilI!
WHEELS ACROSS lNDIA (1940): Spectacular vast ancient tempIe complexes and exotic architecture form the backdrop as the cameras traveI across the exotic land of India. lmmense water wheeIs handmade from bamboo that suppIy entire communities, a magnificent ancient ghost city, abandoned in the jungIe for centuries, and the "Giraffe Women" who use an eIaborate system to eIongate the necks of young girIs to twice their normaI length, are but a few of the curiosities visited. The cameras roll to a breathtaking concIusion as they fiIm the priestess who must kiss the Snake God, an enormous deadIy Cobra to restore fertiIity to her village.
BONUS: PERILOUS PARADlSE (1937) |
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