| NATIVE AREAS OF DAKAR Housing & Residents in Slum Area Of Dakar | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 9169 |
| Catalog #: | 94683 | |
| Clip Number: | 94683-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4614 F | |
| Timecode: | 01:34:35 - 01:40:24 | |
| Location: | Dakar, French West Africa (Senegal) | |
| Year Shot: | 1973 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Slums/Tenements ECONOMICS: Poverty INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Colonialism LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Senegal | |
| Description: | NATIVE AREAS OF DAKAR Various shots mainly around the shanty towns of Dakar in Senegal. Crowding and poverty in slum area of Dakar, Senegal , and also great close shots of some of the residents. Dull colors broken up here and there by a colorful cloth hanging Good coverage of dingy native area - with poor conditions and bad housing. Good CU of various native types includes women men and children. Dakar, French West Africa (Senegal). Hand held cam tracking shot weaving through narrow 'street' in shanty town type area, small dilapidated, moslty wooden structures crowded close together in the dust; laundry hanging out on lines, pots and dishes etc. Sitting outside houses, some people, both adults and children, walking through. CUs of people: frowning young girl, boy smoking cigarette, some proud looking young men, cute smiling children. MS & CU pretty young mother with toddler hugging each other, sweet. CUs woman with one bad eye, chewing on stick. CU kid looking around a corner. LS several neighbors standing outside houses. MCU woman braiding another woman's hair in a rather complicated angular pattern; CU of hair, very cool hair-do! The stylist is also chewing on a green stick. More good shots of people Cute of mother picking up a wandering toddler, starting to carry him away, then turns back to smile at camera. Clotheslines stretched across an open area in front of some shacks. View of high rise apartment building, pull back to show the shanty town in FG. MS women in bright dresses and head wraps talking on street. CU man in turban with wire rim sunglasses, talking to another man. Group of kids. CU lady with very bright and elaborately wrapped cloth on her head. | |
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