BEIRA AND ITS HINTERLAND: BLANTYRE AND ZOMBA The CHIEF CENTRES OF NYASSALAND

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 335157).

Synopsis

INTEREST. The market at Blantyre and street and market scenes in Zomba.

Credits for series (11). Map of Africa highlighting the area (26). CU area around Beira (36). Credits for this film (45). "His Excelling Sir George Smith K.C., M.G., the governor of Nyassaland". MS man walks to camera from the steps of a house (60). MCU governor writing in a pad, calling to a black servant who takes the message. The governor nods at the camera (73). "General view of Blantyre" (77). MS street scenes, African pedestrians (97). MS road, rickshaw approaching the camera (108). "A general store. Natives bringing in their produce for sale" (114). MS Africans, some sitting, some standing, wait in a queue in the open air (134). "Indian shops" (137). MS street lined with shop buildings (149). MCU same (157). CU same, African boys looking at the camera (169). "A vendor of curiosities" (172). An Asian offers his goods for inspection to a European woman (183). CU of the goods: porcelain decorated with wild animal motifs (194). CU Asian working on a (?)ring (202). "Native market" (207). MS African women and children sitting in the centre of a settlement (228). MS trading activity (247). Irised MCU African women with baskets of produce possibly grain (256). Church of Scotland Mission (259). MS Neo Gothic church (266). "Tropical plants grow side by side with European flowers and fruits. Blantyre is three thousand feet above sea level" (278). MS Africans carrying gourds on their heads, walk through an esplanade (289). MS gardens, a European woman is seen picking flowers (347). "On the road from Blantyre to Zomba". "Passing through a front of Eucalyptas trees" (355). MS Africans walk along a road through the forest, two leading oxcarts (375). "General view of Zomba, the capital of Nyassaland" (380). Irised LS of the city and surrounding hill (399). MCU African pulls a rickshaw over a bridge and towards the camera (409). "The Indian quarter" (410). MCU street of bungalows (419). CU man at a sewing machine on the ground, in the open air (428). "Public gardens" (431). Irised shot of weirs (441). Different views of a river (447). MS children with a rickshaw (451). CU European child with a dog on a leopard skin (465). "The government offices" (469). HAS of same "The post office" (480). MS same (480). Africans working at the top of telegraph poles (498). CU car driven by an African in uniform with an African woman in the passenger seat, who shies from the camera. Two Europeans stand by the car and one man holds the woman's nose ring (515), the car drives away (524). "Native market" (526). PAN of the Africans looking at the camera (553). "Native porters" (557). MCU butchers cutting meat at the market (574). "Native tobacco merchant" (578). MCU man empties a bottle of snuff and a woman takes a pinch and pays him (596). CU the same woman, a baby on her back, smiles at the camera (604).

 

Titles

  • BLANTYRE AND ZOMBA: THE CHIEF CENTRES OF NYASSALAND (Alternative)
  • BEIRA AND ITS HINTERLAND: BLANTYRE AND ZOMBA The CHIEF CENTRES OF NYASSALAND
 

Technical Data

Year:
1920
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Belgium
Production Company
E. Gourdinne
 

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