Journey in Southern Angola (1929-30) – dir. Wilfrid Dyson Hambly

20 mins., b&w, silent (English intertitles)

Production: Field Museum of Chicago.

Source: Some 15 minutes of fragments of the film are available on the website of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford here.

Background: The film-maker, Wilfrid D. Humbly (1886-1962), was the then Assistant Curator (later Curator) of African Ethnology at the Field Museum in Chicago and the leader of the Frederick H. Rawson – Field Museum expedition to Angola and Nigeria in 1929-30.

The main purpose of the expedition was to make a collection of artefacts and to take anthropometric measurements. At the same time, Hambly also took photographs and shot the material for this film.

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