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Wheels Across Africa Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221326-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1936

Country: Belgian,British,Congo,East Africa,Kenya,Uganda

Location: British East Africa

TC Begins: 07:20:29

TC Ends: 07:30:42

Duration: 00:10:13

Wheels Across Africa Pt. 3 of 3 Team of Blacks hoist wooden boards & supplies up to treetop for construction of observation platform. Panorama shots across savannah w/ various animals roaming: herds of topi, elephants, hippopotamus, buffalo, antelope, warthog, baboons in tree. Leopard feeding on bait; baboons pour from tree & other animals start to run away as leopard wanders off w/ carcass. Vultures swoop down onto remains. 07:23:41 Cheetahs around expedition trucks, one on roof. 07:24:28 Map of East Africa. Expedition into British East Uganda & Kenya. Long team of oxen pulling cart thru heavy mud. Convoy stuck in mud then, freed. VO “nothing stops our dependable Dodge equipment” - car through clouds of locusts. Armand Denis ? on foot among locust swarm. Car driving thru. 07:25:53 Kenya - wildebeast herd running in circles. Giraffes w/ good shots inc. Denis & Leila Roosevelt approaching them on foot. Zebras. Traveling shots from car - topi herd running in front. Ground blackened from brush fires - impala run & jump alongside. Rhinoceros family. 07:29:15 Leroy Phelps filming from camera mounted on car roof, Roosevelt at his side - drive past & towards lion colony. Good CU Leroy & Leila on car roof; spins camera round to catch lion as it runs away. 07:29:55 Lioness shot dead as she runs away - car pulls up beside body, prodded w/ rifle; loaded onto truck “to take her back to camp and skin her”. Ends abruptly - last two reels missing. Travelogues; Travel; Tourism; Exploration; Safari; Wildlife; Adventurers; Explorers; Big Game Hunting; Colonialism; 1930s; Pith Helmets; Promotions; Advertising; Lecture Films; NOTE: one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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