Synopsis
This film from 1954 was released through the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church. It shows the process of Christian missionaries propagandizing Christianity in the Belgian-occupied Congo, influencing local tribes to convert to Christianity to grow the Protestant church in Africa. The film is produced by William E. Brusseau in cooperation with Westminster Films in Pasadena, California. It is photographed and narrated by Harvey R. Widman and edited and directed by Frederick A. Roberts. Credentials (00:06). A map of ‘Belgian Congo’, the former Belgian colony (00:21). Ubangi River, the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River (00:32). Boats sailing freight and passengers up the river (00:35). Palm trees (01:11). A waterbuck standing meadow (01:18). A monkey (01:27). A flock of running antelopes (01:32). African bush elephants (02:07) and the smaller forest elephants (02:16). A man hunting elephants for its prized meat (02:59). An elephant shot in the head (03:11). A group of hunters sat on the dead elephant’s body (03:30). A local man sitting and drumming (03:43). A girl ties a grass skirt around her waist (03:55). Another girl’s hair is being braided (04:00). Girls wearing traditional tribal outfits with the grass skirts (04:06). They dance a ceremonial dance marking their step into adulthood (04:24). A woman walks through tall grass carrying a jug in her head (05:07). She gets kidnapped by a group of men as disciplinary action against the woman (05:16). The tribe’s head…
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Details
- Running time
- 23 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stock Footage
- Evangelical Mission Covenant Church
- Westminster Films
- Belgian Congo
- Congo River
- Periscope Film