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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221711-23
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1930s
Country: Cameroon
Location: Sahara Africa,Sub
TC Begins: 06:56:15
TC Ends: 07:07:28
Duration: 00:11:13
Titles (snippets) Pt. 1 of 2 06:56:28 Map of Europe w/ Germany. Map of Africa / Afrika w/ Cameroon / Kamerun. Poster showing other German colonies in Africa. 06:56:57 View of barges in shallow coastal bay, mountains behind. 06:57:16 MS of houses & other buildings w/ gardens along shoreline & from above. 06:57:46 Native man cutting small trees w/ axe. Large trees felled. Tilt down very large tree to man w/ axe at base chopping. Tree falls & men on fallen trunk inspecting. 06:59:17 Native cuts piece of smaller log which drains water (?) & white man washes hands & face as Black man holds. 06:59:39 Three natives on scaffolding cutting down large mahogany (?) tree. LS of tree falling. 07:00:09 Men cutting on fallen log; rolling sections w/ poles & onto cart, moved into sawmill. 07:01:25 Cutting planks w/ motorized band saws; circular saws cutting smaller wood. 07:01:50 Peeling plywood. Other wood working & metal working on anvil, drill press & other metal shop machinery. Forge. 07:02:50 High angle LS of jungle trees in dense canopy; tilt down to generating plant. Interior w/ men working on water turbines. Pan over business buildings in jungle. Int. w/ shaved-head European at typewriter, men at desks. 07:03:20 Europeans on motorized narrow-gauge railroad thru jungle to banana plantation. Men harvesting, cutting, carrying, bundling & on flume down mountainside, POV, to carts & pushed to make up train & hauled to riverboat for loading by hand. 07:06:03 POV from water of docked freighter, swastika flag flying. 07:06:15 Native men walking beneath orchard of low Cacao trees. CU pointing to cacao bean / cocoa beans in a cocoa pod. Man picks, puts into basket on back; dumping & men on ground opening & extracting beans. 07:07:04 Interior of roasting plant & bagging roasted beans. Continued... European Colonialism; Occupation; 1930s; Natural Resources; Ethnic; Nazis; Poverty; Development; German planters;