Traveling in Africa.
Map of Africa, traveling in Congo, British colony of Kenya.
Nairobi, the Johnson couple are sitting at a table near a tent, Africans are approaching them, guides are being hired.
Three expedition trucks are driving along a mountain road.
Arrival in the village, local residents are running after the cars, helping to drive through the mud, pushing the car Africa.
Serengeti Reserve.
Herds of animals pass by at dusk against the sky.
Herds of zebras and buffalos graze in the savannah, animals near the river.
Gazelles among the trees.
Antelopes jump over a stream, on stones, rapid shooting.
Ostriches are striding across the steppe.
A herd of giraffes in the grass, giraffes running.
Oza strokes a small giraffe, it bucks, the accompanying blacks have difficulty holding it back.
A herd of long-horned antelopes near an almost dry river.
A lion is hiding in the grass.
The animals are grazing, but they sense a predator and run away
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USA. Zebras and antelopes are running.
A lioness is tearing a fallen zebra.
A pack of hyenas is getting closer, but the lioness is scaring them off and eating the prey.
A family of lions is tearing apart a carcass, the hyenas are waiting in the distance.
A lion is roaring.
Vultures are flying to the carcass abandoned by the lions.
Africa.
Martin Johnson is trying to communicate with the natives with the help of twigs and stones, asking for directions.
The expedition continues on its way with a caravan of camels.
Porters are walking with boxes, camels with cargo on the savannah.
The Johnsons are watching from the roof of the car through binoculars.
A rhinoceros with a baby is eating leaves among the thickets.
Oza is trying to get closer with a gun.
A herd of rhinoceroses is passing in the distance, birds are sitting on them.
The rhinoceros is moving towards the cameras, Oza is scaring it off with shots.
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Africa.
Lake Nakuru, a favorite spot for flamingos.
Incredible number of birds on the lake, they walk, take off.
Johnsons scare the birds, flamingos take off, covering half the sky.
Belgian Congo, Bantu peoples and Sudanese blacks.
Local market, traders with baskets, trade in progress.
Bantu men with tom-toms over their heads, followed by men with spears to the beat of drums, followed by women and children.
Women are naked to the waist.
Ritual singing and dancing to the sounds of tom-toms.
Playing tom-toms with a "soloist".
Men, women, then children dance.
Africa.
Ripon and Murchison Falls.
A river with rapids.
Elephants walk along the shore.
The cameraman and members of the expedition in a motorboat, filming elephants.
Elephants with calves in the grass
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Africa.
Oza approaches elephants with a gun in his hands.
Close-up of an elephant, an elephant among the thickets.
A herd of elephants with cubs is walking.
USA. Africa.
Crocodiles on the Nile along the shore are basking in the sun.
They are scared by a shot, the crocodiles slide into the water.
A crocodile splashes in the water.
The cameraman films the crocodiles from a boat.
A crocodile lies on the ground.
There are hippos in the river, the current washes their carcasses.
Heads of hippos, snorting.
A hippo with a cub runs to the water, disappears under the water.
The hippos open their mouths.
View of a waterfall, a powerful stream of water
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Belgian Congo, visiting a tribe of pygmies.
Jungle, monkeys jumping on the trees.
Members of the expedition follow guides to a pygmy village, pass through the thicket, a stream.
Huts.
Pygmies with bows in their hands.
A woman with a child near the hut is cooking something in a cauldron.
Martin treats the pygmies to cigarettes, they drag on their cigarettes and cough.
Martin hands out some food, but the pygmies clearly don’t like it.
The Johnsons measure the pygmies’ height with a tape measure.
Pygmy children, a woman with a child on her breast.
Martin is next to two pygmies, treats them to a cigarette, gives them speeches, but they can’t light a cigar, waste a lot of matches, until Martin himself finally lights them.
The pygmies are sitting near the hut, the old man is talking.
The young man has a feather attached to his head that spins like a weather vane in the wind.
Pygmies transmit information over a distance using tom-toms
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Africa.
Roll call of tom-toms.
In the bushes pygmies with bows, one of them whistles into a pipe.
Pygmies sit by the fire, then go to bed.
Pygmies run in a chain with spears, one of them falls into a pit trap, camouflaged with leaves, he is pulled out of there.
Women and children run.
Pygmies demonstrate a trap for animals, show how it works.
Many bananas are brought to the hut.
Types of pygmies.
Men play, rhythmically tapping sticks.
Ritual dance.
Oza starts the gramophone and shows dance steps, dances with the pygmies.
Members of the expedition give the pygmies food, matches.
A pygmy inflates a balloon to almost one and a half meters, then it bursts.
They are scared, and the old man laughs at them
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Africa.
Pygmies walk through the jungle with huge tusks, lay them down.
Pygmy wedding ceremony.
A feather is tied to a girl's hand.
Dancing and singing.
A couple at a hut, he leads her into the house.
A fire burns at night, the pygmies dance.
In the morning, the same couple approaches the hut, the woman with a load in her hands goes into the house, and the man remains at the entrance.
The expedition leaves in a truck, the pygmies see them off Africa.
On the map are the points Mikeno, Alumbongo, where gorillas live.
The expedition trucks are driving along the road.
They are with another tribe.
Primitive cultivation of the land with crowbars, a pick, and hands.
Men drag a fallen tree.
Trucks are parked.
Oza plays with three monkeys.
A baby gorilla fights off two monkeys with a stick.
Porters collect things.
View from a tent of mountains in the fog.
They walk in a chain through the jungle
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People make their way through the thicket.
Gorillas are hiding among the trees.
Gorilla paws holding bamboo.
Gorillas with cubs.
A gorilla climbs vines, two gorillas fight, run through trees, climb over fallen trunks.
Gorillas hide up in the trees.
Martin explains to the natives what to do, they knock on the tree, the gorilla falls, they tie it up.
The captured gorillas are tied to bamboo poles and transported to trucks.
They will be taken to the California Zoo.
The expedition vehicles are heading back
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