33 mins., colour, sound – French voice-over commentary
Production : IFAN/ CNC/ Musée de l’Homme.
Sources : CNRS Videothèque no.555; Jean Rouch(DVD collection), Éditions Montparnasse, 2005
Film content – This film offers a more extended account of the hippopotamus hunting shown in Rouch’s earlier film Au pays des mages noirs , and was shot in glorious Kodachrome colour stock with his colleague Roger Rosfelder recording the sound on a Sgubbi field tape recorder. It appears to have been the first film that Rouch showed back successfully to the subjects, an event which resulted in ‘feed-back’ screenings becoming a central feature of his methodology thereafter.
Texts : Henley 2009, Henley 2017