| 词条 | Africa Speaks! |
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| name = Africa Speaks! | image = Africa Speaks poster 1930.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Walter Futter | producer = Walter Futter Paul L. Hoefler | writer = Walter Futter | narrator = Lowell Thomas | starring = | music = | cinematography = Paul L. Hoefler | editing = Walter Futter | studio = Mascot Pictures | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = {{Film date|1930|08|15}} | runtime = 75 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = less than $50,000[1] | gross = }}Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.[2] Plot summaryPaul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa capturing wildlife and tribes on film. ProductionAlthough the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.[1] Wildlife footage from the film was later reused in the twelve "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" films.[3]{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.[4] References in popular cultureThe title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams. DVD releaseAfrica Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[5]See also
References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Doherty|first=Thomas Patrick|title=Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930–1934|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1999|location=New York|pages=239–41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyZx10XsSbIC&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage |isbn=0-231-11094-4 }} 2. ^{{cite book|author=Donald Crafton|title=The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFB_oT-jupQC&pg=PA388|date=22 November 1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22128-4|pages=388}} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Driscoll |first=Jim |authorlink= |title=Reflections of a "B"-Movie Junkie: A Tribute To, and Homage Of, the "B"-Movie Genre Films of the Saturday Matinees, of Primarily the '40's and '50's |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |year=2008 |location= |pages=293–94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqQ5mmu9DfYC&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage |isbn=978-1-4363-5475-2}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Pitts |first=Michael R. |authorlink= |title =Columbia Pictures: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982 |publisher=McFarland |year=2010 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKxN1as8XOMC&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage |isbn=978-0-7864-4447-2}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.oldies.com/product-view/7651D.html |title=Alpha Video - Africa Speaks |accessdate=2015-06-26}} External links{{commons category|Africa Speaks!}}
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