| 词条 | Adventures in Africa |
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Adventures in Africa was a series of Warner Brothers produced documentary film shorts inspired by the success of Martin and Osa Johnson and concurrent features in production like Africa Speaks! and Trader Horn. PremiseWynant D. Hubbard (1900-1961), the author of several books on the continent and its wildlife, spent several months in 1929-1930 in Rhodesia with his family (wife and two children) and cameraman W. Earle Frank assisting. Funding was partly from the American Geographic Society. The chronicle of his adventures, with recorded sound adding to the authenticity, was edited down from an estimated 103, 000 feet of footage and proved to be a popular summertime theatrical series in 1931. The studio later re-edited the footage into a feature Untamed Africa, released April 8, 1933, by Warners under the older Vitagraph logo. Hubbard made a return visit, per a Film Daily April 24, 1931, report,[1] and it is possible this additional footage was included in the feature, but not the original shorts. Use as educational materialsLike a number of other Warner short film series, these black and white films enjoyed a second life as educational material for public schools until judged passé by the 1950s as more African travelogues were available in color. Like other cinematic adventures into the “Dark Continent” and Tarzan films of the 1920s and ’30s, the narration regarding “native” life may occasionally be questioned by modern viewers. Positively, there is much interaction between the Hubbards and their associates with the tribesmen shown. (Hubbard previously published a book in 1926, titled Wild Animals: A White Man’s Conquest of Jungle Beasts, but there’s little ridicule of other races and the few hunting scenes are for village meat, not trophies.) In July 2011, the Warner Archive Collection released the feature film on DVD as part of a double bill with Kongo (1932 film).[2] The University of California, Los Angeles archive has a cluster of the original short films. EpisodesThe original titles of the shorts were as follows, dates listed include some Film Daily previews:
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Notes1. ^[https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume55657newy Film Daily, 4-24-31, retrieved from the Internet Archive] 2. ^DVD Talk review External links
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