The Awakening Sphinx (1920-1929)

Footage №67443, 2 parts, Duration: 0:17:03 B/W

Reel №1

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Germany.

South Africa.

Image of a piggy, its reflection in the water.

Map of Africa.

South Africa.

Coast.

Penguins on the coast.

A flock of penguins.

A vast beach with penguins.

Penguins in the water South Africa.

South African landscape.

Local residents at a hut.

German signs reminiscent of German colonists.

Monument to the "conqueror of Africa".

Building of a German school.

African children at their desks Germany.

South Africa.

Zambezians who walked 200 km to enter a mine owned by the Germans.

A Zambezian buys a German chamber pot in a shop.

Food is cooked in the pot like in a saucepan.

Dances of local residents South Africa.

View of the South African savannah.

A herd of cows.

Shepherds at a halt.

Types of locals Germany.

South Africa.

Settlers at a tent.

Getting water from a well.

Milking cows.

A black boy at a car Germany.

South Africa.

Kalahari Desert.

A running ostrich.

A car chases an ostrich.

A car in the sand.

It gets stuck in the sand.

Clearing the road.

A hunter aims at a kabra antelope

Keywords

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Reel №2

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Cape Town.

Cecil Rhodes Monument.

City streets.

View of the mountain.

Pretoria.

Paul Kruger Monument.

Prime Minister's Palace.

Parliament Building.

Park.

The Union Building in Pretoria Germany.

A herd of cows in a pasture.

A shepherd.

Plowing the land.

A dam.

An irrigation canal.

Fruit trees Germany.

A tin mine.

Workers.

General view of the mine.

Workers at excavation work.

Negro workers pushing wheelbarrows.

A European foreman giving instructions Germany.

A smelting furnace.

Tin smelting.

Local workers at a German merchant's.

Workers with purchases Germany.

A river.

A trip along the river on a steamboat.

Loading fuel.

River landscapes.

Views from the steamboat.

Loading raw materials into wagons.

The film is incomplete.

The collection contains the first two parts of the film

Keywords

South Africa, State, institutions, monuments, Germany, pets, channel, plants, Germany, mine, workers, Germany, industry, workers, trade, Germany, river, water transport, trips

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