51 mins., b&w, silent – titles and intertitles in French
Source : CNC – Bnf
Shot while Léon Poirier was in Madagascar making his feature film, Caïn, the technical and aesthetic quality of this film is far superior to those of most other films of this kind made in this period (though it does not have any kind of sound track).
It offers a series of interesting ethnographic vignettes of the many different cultural groups that have made their home on the island, sometimes over many generations, but suggests that these have all been harmonized under the ideals of French colonial governance. The final scene shows a military band playing as the tricolour is raised.
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