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Weird Wide World Volume 3
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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SECOND PARADlSE (1932): An instaIIment of RKO's Vagabond Adventure Series about the isIand of CeyIon (now Sri Lanka.) "Perhaps someday, among these dark-skinned natives, there wiII be born another Cleopatra who will rule the worId!" speculates narrator Gayne Whitman.
ClTIES OF NORTH AFRICA: TUNIS, ALGIERS, RABAT (1936): "The Screen Traveler" introduces us to the Muslim peopIes of Tunis and AIgiers, and then takes a tour of the crowded marketplaces in Morocco's capital city, Rabat.
lNDlA (1930s-1940s): An incredibly rare Iook at India before it was decolonized, in color. The birthday celebration of the Maharaja of Patiala and the extravagant wedding of the granddaughter of the Maharaja of Bikaner are both shown.
BELLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1944): This parade of scantiIy-clad natives from the South Pacific isles was sold by CastIe FiIms for the home movie market. lt was one of their most popuIar offerings, most likeIy due to the vivid picture of three bare-breasted women on the box. Some of the fiIm's commentary has not heId up so weIl, however, such as "The women wear civilized clothes...they want to be like the white women in picture books!"
INSIDE INDIA (1948): A film from EncycIopedia Britannica on conditions in the newIy-decoIonized India, also made for the home movie market. "Poverty and toiI is the lot of the miIIions of India" the commentary teIIs us, "Moslem or Hindu they scrape a bare existence out of the sun baked soiI."
BUSHLAND SYMPHONY (1949): Kangaroos, koala bears and a variety of exotic birds (incIuding the Iong-beaked Ibis) inhabit the Australian bushland in this short from Academy Award-winning documentarian Ken G. HaIl.
BURMA: PEOPLE OF THE RlVER (1957): Directed by proIific Croatian filmmaker Milan Herzog, this Encyclopedia Britannica short explains how important tribes in the Burmese jungIes are to the economy of Southeast Asia. It aIso highlights their unique customs, incIuding dances in which they wear costumes representing birds and animals, and "The Knife Dance, performed by only the most skiIled and respected men of the viIlage." |
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