| MADAGASCAR (aka MADAGASCAR STREET SCENES) A tour of the island of Madagascar as it becomes an important port for the British Navy. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7520 |
| Catalog #: | 52036 | |
| Clip Number: | 52036-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 175 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:36:27 - 01:40:24 | |
| Location: | Madagascar | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: Various LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Madagascar | |
| Description: | We see several tribes of the island; they are seen panning for gold, threshing corn and harvesting rice; oxen are seen swimming across a river. Other locals are seen speeding down rivers in canoes. M/S of a group of monkeys in a tree. Various shots of tribesmen felling trees in the jungle; logs are transported by canoes on the river. In a village two tribesmen wrestle before a crowd. Men from another tribe practise spear-throwing. A man catches an ox to be sacrificed; several shots of the celebrations and praying before the ox head (rather patronising commentary refers to these villagers as 'little people'). Commentator talks of how, in enemy hands the island could have menaced the vital lines of supplies that go round the Cape (of Africa) and up to the Middle East, "but this time the United Nations got in first!" Several shots of British Navy warships at sea as the soundtrack plays 'Rule Britannia'. | |
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