France.
North Africa.
Documentary film about the second expedition of French travelers Georges-Mary Hardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil to Africa / September 1924-June 1925 /.
Footage recording the arrival of the first expedition of Hardt in Timbuktu / January 7, 1923 /.
Caption about the tasks of the Second Expedition: to cross the African continent from the north to Magadaskar.
Georges-Marie Hardt at the tent.
His assistant Batenburg.
Louis Audouin-Dubreuil.
Unpacking the luggage of the expedition.
Expedition members Renault and Biya driving a car.
Their replacements Rabaud, Pia, Prudhomme, Remillet, chief engineer of the expedition - Ch.
Brull.
October 28, 1924. Parade of local troops in North Africa.
The commander of the Sefra district welcomes the expedition members.
The French flag.
The orchestra.
The expedition members' cars set off.
Cars against the backdrop of a desert landscape.
Crossing a river.
The cars pass El Hamada / mountainous terrain /.
The Beni Abbes Oasis.
General view.
Palm trees.
The Tanezrouft Desert.
Cars in the desert.
The travelers examine the mummified remains of those who died in the desert.
Cars in the desert.
They overcome the desert d / n.
An airplane over the desert.
It drops a message from Colonel Bechar's squadron to the travelers.
The text of the message.
The travelers wave handkerchiefs to the plane.
Rocky terrain.
The expedition artist Yakovlev makes sketches.
A group of ostriches.
Meeting with the natives.
Cars in the desert
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France.
North Africa.
Campsite.
In the foreground - an ostrich, natives.
Route map.
The Niger River.
Natives in a boat.
Scheme of movement along the banks of the Niger.
The city of Niamay.
Crowds of people.
Arrival of a motorcade.
Local authorities welcome travelers.
Poland.
Niamey with the Niger River.
Natives.
Native dances.
Priestess and "victim".
Boy with a camel.
Boy mounts a camel.
Warlike dance of the Tuareg.
Tribal leaders in formal attire.
Local warriors.
Sultan Maradis with his entourage.
Horsemen.
Messengers of Sultan Barmu.
Military detachment.
Harem building.
General view.
The sultan's wives in the harem doing housework.
Sultan Barmu in festive attire with his entourage.
The sultan on vacation.
Blind people all around musicians.
Cinder.
Expedition in cars.
Meeters.
Separate buildings
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France.
North Africa.
Expedition on the road.
Local mission doctor Bergonier.
Text of Ardt's note with a message about sending him guides to Lake Chad.
Motorists near Lake Chad.
Scheme of the expedition route in the vicinity of Lake Chad.
Kanem.
The local population welcomes the expedition.
Native dances. "Kolo" dance.
The expedition on rafts crosses a water obstacle.
Natives.
Fort-Lami.
Arrival of cars.
Greetings from the local population and colonists.
Native boats with nets on the lake.
Colonies of wild birds.
Caimans.
A native pulls out a caiman carcass.
Its mouth.
The moon over the lake.
Sunrise.
Papyrus boats.
Rafts.
View of the lake.
Crossing to the other side.
Savannahs of Equatorial Africa.
Panorama of the savannah
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France.
North Africa.
The village of Mogrum.
Huts.
Natives at their fetish.
Native musical instruments.
Their dances.
Local women.
Their faces.
A woman eating.
Upper and lower lips of women stretched with hoops.
A killed giraffe.
Birds.
A camp of motorists.
A walking caravan in the savannah.
Crossing a river.
A camp of hunters.
An expedition artist at work.
Local cooks.
Scenes of an antelope hunt.
Running antelopes.
Hunters shooting.
Expedition filmmakers.
A wounded antelope.
Returning to camp.
Hunting trophies.
Lion hunting.
Birds.
Marabou.
A native reports that a lion has appeared nearby.
A lion's paw print.
Hunters in the savannah.
A killed lion.
A carcass The lion is carried to the camp.
A column of hunters heads south in search of elephants.
Hunters in the bush.
They cut shoots, making their way
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France.
North Africa.
Hunters in the bush.
A herd of elephants.
Preparing for the hunt.
Hunters in ambush.
Fire in the jungle.
Hunters light a backfire.
Burning jungle.
Smoke.
Hippos in the river.
Hippo hunting.
Hunters at rest.
An artist shows his sketches.
Hunters by the fire.
Natives in the river.
They drag out hippo carcasses.
Trophies: killed hippos.
A car expedition sets off for Bangui.
Cars in the bush.
Clearing the road.
The car overcomes obstacles.
Termite mound.
A group of natives on the road in front of a dilapidated bridge.
A car fords the river, passing the bridge.
Ubangi.
Native huts.
Natives run after the cars
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France.
North Africa.
Drawings of natives on a rock.
Ritual dances of natives.
The "ganza" rite.
A shaman in the bush.
Young men are brought to him.
The "initiation into manhood" rite.
Dances.
Local musicians.
Dances.
Drums.
The cars set off.
Bathing in the river.
Dances of the inhabitants of the village of Vogpo.
January 12, 1925. The governor of Ubangi-Shari Lamblin pays a visit to the expedition members.
The Ubangi River.
A boat on the river.
Natives at work.
Buildings of the new settlement.
Scheme of the expedition route.
Natives in the forest at logging.
The expedition cars leave the wooded area and go to the Nile.
The Mangbetu tribe.
Types of local women in characteristic headdresses.
Children.
Examples of native applied art.
Their dances
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France.
North Africa.
Indian Ocean.
Sources of the Nile.
View of Kilimanjaro.
Scheme of division of the expedition into 4 groups and their routes.
Lake Victoria-Nyanza.
General view.
Thickets in Tangenyika.
Cars.
Natives.
Views of Lake Nyassa.
Expedition members on the shore.
Thickets.
Cars and natives.
Pulling out a stuck car.
Cars in the water.
Overcoming obstacles.
Natives pull cars onto the shore.
Coast of the Indian Ocean.
Cars in a palm grove.
Scheme of unification of four groups of the expedition in the capital of Madagascar.
Tananarive, June 26, 1925. Crowds in the streets.
Arrival of expedition cars.
Monument to the French colonizer Gallieni.
Members of the expedition lay flowers at monument.
Text of Ardt's telegram to France.
The ship taking the expedition members home.
Against the background of the waves, individual frames from the film flash - individual moments of the journey
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