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CONGO & UBANGI RIVER AFRICA EXPEDITION "WILD RIVER SAFARI" PYGMIES 49444a (1954)

1954 · Short film · 8 min

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Wild River Safari is a short 1954 documentary/travelogue from Castle Films that follows an expedition upriver into the heart of Africa. It appears that the expedition travels up the Congo River and then moves up the Ubangi River during the expedition. The film opens with a shot of a river (likely the Congo, or possibly the Ubangi). Men paddle dugout canoes up the river. A massive colony of flamingos wade along a stretch of the river (00:58). The expedition arrives at a village where women and…

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8 minutes

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