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Call Number: VHS01626

by Ray Phoenix; Quentin James Reynolds; Video Images (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language:  English

Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images, ©1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1957 (70 mins.);

Summary:An ethnographic documentary which surveys the manners and mores of “contemporary” Africans in 1957. Reynolds, a noted journalist, observes that parts of the continent have been westernized. However, these scenes are of rural Africa where white men have rarely visited. They focus on native girls performing the “python dance”, a rite that celebrates their arrival at womanhood, lions stalking and killing zebras and antelopes, and 18-year old tribal youths undergoing a ritual of manhood.
OCLC #: 37591441
Added: April 1, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection