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Title: AFRICAN SAFARI

Reference number: 6666

Date: 1951*

Director: [filmed by Edinburgh Cine Society members (?)]

Sound: silent

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 64.49 mins

Description: Amateur overview of voyage to South Africa by liner. General views and multiple panning shots of landscape. Occasional views of people and wildlife. Includes footage in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Shotlist: REEL 1
[b&w] view from liner at edge of docks, (Lond?) on Castle Line on gangplank. Tugs towing liner. Large battleship at docks. Cranes (2.04) open sea, view hilly coastline, brief view woman on board (3.16) [col] view coast (4.30) closer view coast, white houses (4.45) view from small boat leaving liner (4.55) dusk, palm trees ext. house (5.04) ext. 'New Bazaar', cattle drawn carriage (5.30) 2 men in fancy dress on deck crowded liner (6.30) game involving men in fancy dress styling passengers hair before dunking them in pool (7.13) man holding map of world plaque. C/u name 'Leslie Robert Etheridge..Ancient Order of the Deep, Carnton Castle 20th June 1952' (7.30) duller weather, deck empty (8.07) gvs liner (8.37) pan unidentified settlement, square apartment buildings, mountainous surrounding landscape (10.07) 'Die Ou Mutual' large office building, lots of cars, 'Hercules Cycles' advert. Car on countryside road (10.39) steam train (10.48) c/u sign 'Sir Lowry's Pass -Drive Carefully Ry Versigtig'. Pan landscape (11.40) more mountainous scenery (12.37) palm trees, landscape at dusk (13.30) ostrich with large eggs, man brings one over to camera. Man in hat teasing large ostrich. Man on ostrich back (14.50) pan landscape (16.24) steam train passes, pan landscape (17.18) gravestone 'Mair', more pan landscape (17.58) ext. shop, advert 'true smoking pleasure C to C filter', pan small main street (18.25) deer behind fence, other animals (18.46) [b&w] woman walking, ext. house, pan landscape (20.08) [col] pan elevated view housing (20.38) man demonstrating snakes at Museum and Snake park, sign also in Dutch (21.44) pan streets, road, landscape (22.21) cattle drawn cart passes laden with twigs (23.00) pan landscape, road, traffic, bridge (23.52) Rand Water Board barrage at Vaal River, c/u sign 'opened on 27th July 1923 by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught K.G., Governor General of the Union of South Africa' Pan roads (24.38) sign on wall 'The Timber People' (25.00) pan landscape, woman walking down road towards camera (25.40) ext. large building, images of wagons on walls. Pan lined building with statues (26.15) int. view through patterned glass (26.28) ext, pan dusty landscape, occasional tree (28.38) waterfall at dusk, gvs giraffe among trees (31.00) small round houses with pointy roofs (31.34) monkey in trees (31.50) giraffe (32.45) bison and deer through trees (34.50) small settlement, Red Cross sign, landscape through thin trees (35.52) pan more mountainous landscape (37.34) pan rail depot, several cars and vans on train carriages. White houses, local people walking around (38.51) sign for 'office', pan landscape at dusk, old brick ruins and large circular walls. 1936 Monuments and Relics Act sign (39.40) pan landscape (39.55) 1437ft.

REEL 2
[col] elevated pan landscape, sunny day, pan landscape from roadside (1.08) waterfall (1.30) elephant in distance, gvs land at roadside, occasional view cars roof (2.44) deer on plain, pan mountainous landscape (3.09) horses on plain (3.18) tracking shot from vehicle (3.30) zebras running (3.34) hippos in water (3.45) birds in distance, elephant in distance (4.13) ostrich, closer view, tracking shot (4.40) dark, pan landscape (4.46) woman holding bunches of bananas, pan roadside landscape (5.05) pan of view from suspension bridge of river and plains below (5.41) c/u plaque of Sir Henry Birchenough Baronet GCM (5.46) c/u plaque, inscription dated 1935 (5.55) pan landscape (6.22) woman showing children photos at roadside (6.30) road, pan roadside landscape, past cattle (7.30) men walking donkeys pulling hay (7.43) gvs road, houses, street scene, large buildings (8.40) ext. garage, Grosvenor Motors, the Guinea Fowl (9.15) pan mountainous landscape, settlement, elevated view bridge over coastal inlet (10.48) local people looking at camera (10.55) pan mountainous landscape (11.38) view from docked ship of settlement, cranes, houses, steam boat (12.10) river at dusk (12.31) pan docks, liners, settlement, bay (13.30) tracking shot from ship, tug HB Christian (14.00) view mountainous scenery from boat, settlements (14.46) lowering of lifeboats on deck, people in lifejackets (15.12) pan docks (15.39) sea (15.53) pan settlement from elevated spot, gvs buildings, church (17.05) view from sea (18.26) 663ft

REEL 3
pan landscape (0.14) plaque Alfred Beit Bridge over Limpopo River, pan landscape (0.58) dusk, pan landscape (2.05) pan roadside landscape (2.14) local man walking along street in settlement, pan park, palm trees and white people at fountain (2.58) street scene, various shops, cars parked (3.13) statue, pan road, cars, buildings (4.03) Dunlop sign, more gvs shops, street (4.39) ext. Colonial Mutual building. Ford garage, more gvs streets, buildings (5.53) c/u fountain, white people in garden with small local boy. Man carrying woman and jumping in lake. People walking among large plants (6.28) 233ft