SOME TRIBES OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN 1933

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 14734).

Synopsis

INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part of a mimic war dance (53). Shaping spear shafts by whittling down poles, heating them and passing them through a hole in a tree to straighten them (78). Washing circlets of threaded beads in a stream of water from the mouth (91). Twisting fibres against the leg to make threads (98). A potter beats clay with a mallet, and them kneads it (114). The man moulds bowls and a large pot by hand and with wooden scraping tools (171). BARI - In a Mougalle village (176-181). DODINGA - Preparing bundles of thatch (187). Several men on a roof laying thatch (195). LOTUKA - Several shots of men, in the Losito district, wearing the Death Dance costume (218). Women kneeling to grind corn (230). Men using long-handled hoes (238), a blacksmith at work. The bellows consist of two pots covered with cloth which are poked alternately with sticks to drive air from them through pipes to the fire (257). Hammering and shaping an axehead (274). Shots of men watching (279). A woman potter making a large vessel (311). ZANDE - Two ceremonial drums under a thatched shelter at Lirangu (315-319). A woman combs and plaits another's hair (331). Shots of women and children (335). A potter makes a decorated container the neck of which is moulded into the shape of a head and face (400). [Blank film (404)]. DINKA - from the Bahr-el-Ghazal river. A woman pounds millet in a pestle using a heavy pole (407-414). A man, and then a woman, kneeling to hoe the ground (429). A woman thatching (by moonlight?) (437). Setting a spring noose set and covered (465). A potter making a large bowl (496); MCU to show lip-ring (486-487). A staged fight between a Dinka and a Jur: both men are armed with knobkerries and very narrow wooden shields (540). Some of the spectators join in (544). JUR - A seated family group near Bek (549). A woman potter makes a pot with a side handle and a lipped neck and decorates it with a geometric pattern (649). MCU a watching woman with a lip-ring (574-580) and of the potter (584). The End (649).

 

Titles

  • SOME TRIBES OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN 1933
 

Technical Data

Year:
1933
Colour:
Colour
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Photography
POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G.
 

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