Scenes and Crafts in Uganda (1950-51) – dir. Diana Powell-Cotton

31 mins. , b&w , silent. Shot on 16mm at 16fps.

Source : Powell-Cotton Museum

Background and Content : In making this film, Diana Powell-Cotton may have been assisted by her younger brother Christopher, then a colonial administrator in Uganda.

It offers a series of sequences of everyday life and crafts in Uganda. \

On the same trip, Diana Powell-Cotton also made a film about the Kumam of Teso District.

Texts : UNESCO catalogue, p.258, Nicklin 1981.

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