| HONEYMOON TREE Baobab Tree with Honeymooners' Initials | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6779 |
| Catalog #: | 440094 | |
| Clip Number: | 440094-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 249 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Victoria Falls | |
| Year Shot: | 1932 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ART: Graffiti BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Love, Romance, Courtship HORTICULTURE/PLANTS & TREES: Baobabs LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) | |
| Description: | HONEYMOON TREE A tree in Africa where lovers carve their names for posterity. Victoria Falls, on border of Zambia and Zimbabwe Baobab tree with many couples initials. Apparently this is a popular honeymoon destination. WS looking across grass to the huge tree of many trunks, with a white man in typical safari costume walking around at the foot of it. Shot from near tree tilt up at branches; pan down. LS the Caucasuan man standing at foot of tree, looking up at a young very dark skinned African man in white shirt and shorts climbing down. MCU the 2 men looking at many names carved in trunk of tree; title says these are left by honeymoon couples. White man points up at a spot on tree trunk. CU his hand pointing at a initials in a heart with arrow through it carved in tree trunk. CU tilt down African man (may be teenager) looking up, laughing. MCU the 2 men looking at tree. CU pan rt. on trunk carved with many initials, some dates. | |
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