Rate: Men of Africa
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[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 39
Released: 1940-09-01
Running Time: 28 Minutes
Homepage: https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/4739
Studios: Strand Productions,
A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire. A tribal dance hints at the "life of fear and uncertainty" replaced by British rule, a village's "squalor" the need for continued war on "ignorance, poverty and disease." "Much can be achieved by money and the initiative of the White Man:" film hints at hydro-electric schemes, modern harbours (Mombasa), roads, bridges etc and illustrates in more detail hospital expansion; tsetse fly research and control; relieving malnutrition; agricultural improvement; education (primary school; Makerere College)." - Abridged version of synopsis on colonialfilm.org