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News In Brief: South Africa

Reel Number: 220989-22

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1948

Country: South Africa

Location:

TC Begins: 02:43:28

TC Ends: 02:44:43

Duration: 00:01:15

News In Brief: South Africa Donald O’Connor sits in back of open-top car greeting crowds on visit to South Africa; cars w/ women competing in beauty contest, top prize trip to Hollywood; CUs women in hats smile and wave. All-white crowd. Black dancers perform in ‘tribal’ costume; “the dark dancers of Darkest Africa put on their version of Hot Jive”; O’Connor conducts then joins in, holds spear and shield. Apartheid; Segregation; Racism; Racist Stereotyping; 1948;

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