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Films from Rhodesia & Nyasaland, 1940s-1960s
Title
Films from Rhodesia & Nyasaland, 1940s-1960s.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [not after 2002]
Physical Description
1 videocassette (130 min., 14 sec.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
Notes
Title from cassette label.
Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during 40s, 50s, 60s. The intention was to project a benevolent paternalism.
Silent or English language films.
Summary
Short feature films, comedies and documentary films produced in from Rhodesia and Nyasaland from the 1940s to 1960.
Variant and related titles
Films from Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1940s-1960s
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Lux toilet soap commercial (Container title: Mary's lucky day) (b & w, si. with music, 19 min.)
The box / Central African Film Unit (1948, col., si., 22 min., 30 sec.)
New acres / Central African Film Unit ; director, Henry Berriff ; producer, Dick Rayner (b & w, sd., 13 min., 54 sec.)
We were primitive / Southern Rhodesia Information Service (1947, b & w, sd, 19 min.)
Five messengers / Central African Film Unit (1948, col., si., 30 min., 50 min.)
Mattaka buys a car (Central African Film Unit (1951, silent, 15 min.)
Rhodesia and Nyasaland news / Central African Film Unit (b & w, sd., 10 min.).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Short films.
Television commercials.
Television news programs.
Silent films.
Fiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Propaganda films.
Documentary films.
Sponsored films.
Also listed under
Southern Rhodesia Information Service, production company.
Central African Film Unit, production company.
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