From Paris to Dahomey (1920-1929)

Footage №65393, 4 parts, black-white
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Maksim Deli

Reel №1

France.

The expedition,led by Jean Casale and Roland Garros.

Man with a movie camera.

Card,multischema journey.

Paris-Oran,1550 km.

A plane taking off,view from the wing.

Flight over Spain,Los Alcázares.

Bay in the sea.

Over The Oran.pnrm.top.

From Haran path lies in Gao,2200 km away.

Moulsham,flying over the Sahara.

Colomb-behar,the images are typical of the Arabs.

Women in national dress.

One of them smokes.

The desert Fort.

Tessalit,nomads with camels.

The pilots on the ground wash.

A Mirage in Gao

Key words

France, expedition, travel, aviation, desert, ethnicity, female, sea, animals

Reel №2

Goa, pnrm. above the ground.

Children of the plane, curious residents.

The River Niger.

The natives carry long boats goats.

Women wash the dishes.

A tribe of Tuareg.

The members of the expedition pour in glasses of Cinzano, offer the monkey that tries

France.

Women knock something mortar in a tub.

The life of the natives,their dwellings.

The boys poured from pitcher plants

From Gao to Mellonville.

The crew on the plane.

At the bottom of the mission Niamey.

Negros dance with Tam-Tam.

The village, the procession of women with jars on their heads.

A herd of ostriches.

Men rest, women engaged in farming.

Local Barber ubivaet the head of the Negro.

Cut the members of the expedition.

Night, burning the cane

Key words

India, Africa, travel, aviation, shipping, natives, children, people, animals, river
France, traveling, women, indigenous peoples, children, plants
Africa, Dahomey, travel, shipping, aviation, people, entertainment, birds, plants

Reel №3

France.

The members of the expedition floating down the river in a boat with an awning,rowed by the natives.

Cook dinner on the boat.

Come ashore with weapons.

Conductors carrying on their heads boxes.

A few people grasping hands, the tree,showing its thickness.

Go through thickets.

The hunting of the Buffalo,cut up the campfire.

Again the way to Dahomey.

Gaia,more civilized home.

Woman with spinning wheel

Key words

France, expedition, travel, river, water transport, natives, weapons, plants, population, hunting, animals

Reel №4

France.

The yarn is stretched on long sticks.

Weaver for the machine.

The natives sew leather.

Paint coat.

Locals.

Festival, all in costume.

Ritual dance with the struggle, the men first, then boys.

Tam-tam.

The road through the village, huge trees.

Railroad station.

The huts of the natives, thatched.

The packet-boat on the water, raise the load.

Conakry.

Captain looks through binoculars.

Dakar, in the port are the ships.

The crowd on the shore

Key words

France, the population of the expedition, the natives, crafts, festivals, entertainment, plants, railway, port, transportation, water

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