Emergent Africa Fascinating And Detailed Look At Lesotho In South Africa Shortly After The Country S Independence Footage

EMERGENT AFRICA Fascinating and detailed look at Lesotho in South Africa, shortly after the country's independence.
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	Catalog #:	503399
	Clip Number:	503399-3
	Orginal Film:	CP 686
	Timecode:	01:44:22 - 01:49:58
	Location:	Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), South Africa.
	Year Shot:	1968 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	CULTURAL GROUPS: African FARMING: Misc LOCATIONS/AFRICA: South Africa
	Description:	CS Arched modernistic church - horse grazing in FG In Maseru, the capital, we see people milling about the streets, several wear blankets to keep the heat off. CS Passers-by - one blanket woman with suitcase on her head. CS Mules and people passing shopping arcade others sitting by the edge. CS Fruit market - huge bags of oranges in FG. CU Collection of barber's clippers. A hand comes in and picks up pair of clippers and a brush. MS Barber at work under rough canopy of cardboard. Khaki-clad policeman looks on. CU Customer having his hair clipped. A girl carries a pail of water on her head a ramshackle horse van passes. Another man works on his car, a VW Beetle, outside his house. We see a car outside a primitive hut with an African changing the wheel. CU The car with a child watching father at work in the boot. Children running across picture women sewing and washing. Cu smoky chimney coming out of window and women looking out. Ms woman looking out and boys playing soccer outside. Children play with a ball. We see a soccer match; commentator says there is no colour bar here; black and white men sit together. Ms football match against a bg of advertising signs in english. Spectators in fg - one with lesotho hat. Cs details of the play. Cu cheering african spectators waving lesotho hats. Cu two african and one european spectator cheering. Cs more details of play. In Maseru's only bar, Africans and white people drink and talk together (integration). CS A black and a white hand on the bar at the Lancer's Inn. MS At the bar one white man one blanket man several Africans. CS Barman and a customer play a game like draughts with beer bottle tops. CS A corner of the bar with mostly Europeans and one blanket man. Two Africans in BG. CS Two Africans and a white man talking - cave painting replicas behind them. CS European man talking to blanket man at bar. Tilt up to thatched cover over bar. Mls looking down on village. Traditional home in fg. Woman arrives with load of thatching reeds on her head. In another village a woman feeds some chickens and turkeys. MS work on a farm - a woman in Lesotho hat is feeding grain to hens and turkeys. CU this woman looking quite splendid. CU turkey and hens. A man has his baggage weighed and boards a plane to go and work in South Africa's gold mines. Aerial shots from a plane of the Orange River and the Maluti mountains. Air-to-ground shot over big gorge in the Orange River. CU Pilots hands at controls. Air-to-ground over another rocky bit of scenery. Air-to-ground over huge erosion area. Air- to-ground flying through snowy mountain pass. CS Control panel. Air-to-air the plane flying over mountains. More village scenes as we see mothers who have brought their babies for vaccinations and a check-up on the mountainside. MS African nurse and crowd of mothers and children at open air clinic. CU Mother and baby drinking from tin can. MS The clinic as a mother arrives with her baby. CS European doctor operating on little girl's foot in open air sitting on a rock. A white doctor attends to a baby; C/U of the contents of his medical case; he gets into a airplane marked 'Flying Doctor Service'. CS Doctor girl and her mother - other Africans looking on - bleak mountains in BG. CU Doctor's travelling surgical kit. CU Mother looking on and two other African children. MS The doctor getting up to go - flying doctor airplane in BG. He waves and they wave back. CU Flying doctor airplane. The doctor walking in to get aboard. CS Lufthansa jet at London Airport. The Lesotho High Commissioner and his wife say goodbye to several British surgeons at London Airport. The surgeons are going to Lesotho to demonstrate surgery techniques. CU High Commissioner shaking hands with the doctor - two other doctors follow. CS The doctors boarding the Lufthansa plane. CU The High Commissioner and his wife waving them off. CS The pilot at his controls. Brief in-flight shots show the men checking their instrument cases and looking at a brochure about Lesotho. CU The doctor examining his apparatus - test tubes etc. MS Two of the jet engines over a blanket of cloud. CU A doctor opening the Lesotho magazine. LS Lufthansa jet touching down at Johannesburg. L/S of the Lufthansa airplane landing at Johannesburg. Ms a car arriving at the lesotho frontier. They drive to Lesotho; a sign above the frontier reads 'Kena Ka Khotso' - 'Enter In Peace'. Ms people sitting on lawn outside hospital - doctors car drives up. Pan to see reception committee of nurses. At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital the surgeons are greeted by Patrick Mota, the Minister of Health. Cs the car and reception group as doctors get out. Cs the minister his deputy and Dr. Lobona receiving the english guests. Cu queen elizabeth II hospital sign. Ms the operating room - mother on operating table - english doctor holding new born baby that has just been delivered showing it to mother. One of the surgeons holds a new-born baby for the mother to see in an operating theatre. Cu the baby in the doctor's arms he turns to show it to nurse. Doctor gives a lecture on eyes before a mixed race group. Ms lecture room - class watch english doctor drawing diagrams on blackboard. Cu doctor drawing diagrams. Cs students attending lecture. Cs doctor showing x-ray to african doctor they turn from viewing panel and african doctor explains x-ray. A plastic surgeon from Guy's Hospital discusses an x-ray with an African doctor. In the children's ward, a row of babies with labels on their foreheads sit on their mother's knees. A doctor examines an extremely thin baby. Ms the children's ward - african and european doctor inspect baby patients on their mothers knees. Cu babies awaiting treatment - labels plastered on their heads. Cs nurse handing very thin baby to doctors. He is uncovered. Cu the emaciated baby. The Queen of Lesotho sits with her young son in a garden while he is checked over by a specialist from Britain. Ms doctor with patella examining the king and queen's son in the royal garden - prince on his mothers knee. Cu the king and dr. Hingorani looking on. Ms the whole group - king's horse in bg. King goes towards his horse. CS The horse and groom. King enters picture. CS King and horse as he takes off his red blanket and puts on Lesotho hat. MS King mounts horse while Queen holding Prince stands watching. He rides off. He turns to wave. CU Queens and Prince watching him. MLS The king riding on through garden. MS King riding in the street children running along beside him. King goes off on his horse for a ride in the mountains. Ls horsemen on skyline of hill river in fg.