Savage Africa

1950
A
1h 18m

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The expedition that shot this film was sponsored by the French Government and the Museum of Man, for the purpose of making a lasting record of the native tribes in French Equatorial Africa, ... Read allThe expedition that shot this film was sponsored by the French Government and the Museum of Man, for the purpose of making a lasting record of the native tribes in French Equatorial Africa, and the USA had nothing to do with except show the film that was shot by the French expedi... Read allThe expedition that shot this film was sponsored by the French Government and the Museum of Man, for the purpose of making a lasting record of the native tribes in French Equatorial Africa, and the USA had nothing to do with except show the film that was shot by the French expedition, and edited into an exploitation stinker. The expedition members consisted of a group... Read all

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Robert St. John

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Ray Morgan

Self - Narrator
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Director
- Jacques Dupont
Writer
- Peter Ordway
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Mildly interesting look at late 1940s Congo

Marginally interesting bit of history, this black-and-white documentary of the French Ogowe-Congo Mission, which lasted three years, including fourteen months of observation in Africa, "the dark continent, which has always intrigued man."

Pygmy villages, pirogues, and jungle life are shown, with narration added in - and distracting overdubbed chanting and drumming. But to present this as silent footage with just a narrative would have been even less involving. Ideally, to have footage shown with its original soundtrack would have helped greatly.

As it is, the film is a curio, a look at central Africa in the late 1940s, its "violence, and majestic beauty," of interest probably only to people with an interest in the history of the Congo. All others will lose interest quickly.