Voyage en Angola [Journey through Angola] (1929) – dir. Marcel Borle

 60 mins., b&w, silent – French intertitles.

Source : Musée d’Ethnographie Neuchâtel 

An expedition film shot by Marcel Borle during a Swiss scientific mission to Angola (1928-1929). It is mostly concerned with the journey itself, and is of limited ethnographic interest, but during the latter part of the film there are some sequences showing the expeditionaries meeting some local indigenous people and some brief sequences of masked dancing.

Text : Castro 2016. See also a report on the plans of the expedition that appeared in August 1928 in De Cinema, a Lisbon monthly journal, here

 

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