Africa Speaks!
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Directed by | Walter Futter |
Produced by | Walter Futter Paul L. Hoefler |
Written by | Walter Futter |
Narrated by | Lowell Thomas |
Cinematography | Paul L. Hoefler |
Edited by | Walter Futter |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | less than $50,000[1] |
Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas.
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Plot summary
Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa.
Production
Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti of 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.[2]
Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.[3]
DVD release
Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[4]
References in popular culture
The title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams.
References
External links
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- Africa Speaks! is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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- American documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Films set in the 1920s
- Films set in Africa
- Films shot in Africa
- Ethnofiction films
- 1930s documentary films