1952 - Color, Liberia: Pepperbird Land aka Pepper Bird Land

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. Liberia on diagram / map of Africa, comparison in size. CUs natives, surveyor, kids along beach, fishermen, women pounding rice, spinning cotton or wool, canoe on river, chiefs meeting. Women shaking rattles & dancing bare-breasted. CUs, feet & bodies, painted w/ mud. 10:03:59 Dirt road thru rubber trees; man tapping & gathering dripping latex. Large Firestone Rubber Company factory, trucking & pouring & worked by machines. Men moving, inspecting rubber sheets. 10:05:42 River ferry; unloading in Monrovia & cargo nets loading into USA freighter hold. 10:06:16 Maintaining, fueling & passengers boarding commercial Liberian National Airlines DC-3 airplane. Two White men unloading photographic supplies & Bolex film camera from pickup truck. Magnetometer for iron ore location; men load bomb-shaped device below plane. Aerial camera into plane & DC-3 starts up. 10:07:36 LS iron mine at Bomi Hill; dynamite explosion. Men working w/ drills, move cases of dynamite & placing sticks, fuzing together. Man signals; large explosion CU. Trucks in put w/ steam shovel removing rock, CUs. Truck signaled, backs & dumps into crusher; CU crushing. Ore cars loaded, railroad switched & cars filled w/ ore leave. Dumping onto conveyor belt & onto ore-carrying freighters. 10:11:54 Village assembled & male dancers perform to drumming in grass skirts, gymnastics; woman w/ babies on back swaying watching. 10:13:38 Men planting cocoa; others w/ cattle; swine / hogs. Methodist mission children around new tractor. Roadgrader building roads; surveyor; Tourneau earthmoving equipment. 10:15:20 Men carrying body or bodies (?) on plank along dirt road. Lame women walking; mother & kids to doctor setting out medicine & treating villagers at outdoor table. CUs. 10:16:16 Native men in suits look at & plan w/ hospital model. 10:16:23 Volunteer military march / parade in review on dirt field; rifle drill. 10:17:00 White woman teacher teaching English reading, certificate awarded. 10:17:30 High angle / HA of Bromley Episcopal Girls School singing on river bank, school building & dancing in circle in uniforms. 10:18:02 Men at Booker Washington Institute working on engines, arc welding; agriculture. University of Liberia under construction & students walking outside buildings. Liberian students studying at Howard University, Washington DC, USA. 10:19:00 Boat re-enacting freed slaves landing; Free Port of Monrovia & ships at dock w/ goods moved by hand, lifted by cargo slings. Pan Monrovia buildings & business street w/ truck traffic. US Embassy, British Embassy, hotel for Chiefs visiting capital. Providence Baptist Church; large houses; government buildings. 10:20:56 President William V.S. Tubman speaks to camera, SOF: “Like the Pepper Bird that sings each morning...” Visuals of sunset over village, people leaving newly built house. Ext. of United Nations building & flag. CU sign: No parking entrance Embassy of Liberia. Ext. of Liberian Embassy, Washington DC (?). Very well dressed people parading in Liberia in European clothes w/ name tags. Group standing by sign: Schools Throughout the Country. 10:22:16 Natives in native clothes marching; workers in dress up clothes. Liberian Flag on pole in breeze. Promotional Film; Africans; 1950s; Natural Resources; Mining; Exploitation; Underdeveloped; Tropics; Tropical; NOTE: Any continuous 12 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk