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Insect Scourge

Date released

22 Oct 1931

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

134

NoS ID

138252

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Plague of locusts in Belgian Congo.

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Congo Belge: Filmé Par Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin et Ernest Genval

aka: Belgisch Congo Gefilmd Door Gérard de Boe, André Cauvin & Ernest Genval

Director

Ernest Genval; Gérard De De Boe; André Cauvin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 276 minutes), 21 Euros

This 2 DVD set presents the work of the three most prominent Belgian ‘colonial filmmakers’. The pioneer Ernest Genval began filming in the Belgian Congo in around 1925; from 1937 Gérard De Boe took up...

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Hamlet (2007 Video)

Director

Hugues Serge Limbvani; Antoine Kouton; Gilleslvan Frankignoul

Video recording of Hamlet adapted and directed by Hughes Serge Limbvani with Kaf Malere in the title role. Directed for video by Antoine Kouton and Gilleslvan Frankignoul.

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Blood in the Mobile (2010)

Director

Frank Piasecki Poulsen

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £5.99

Documentary about the connection between mobile phones and the civil war in the Congo. Conflict between the various armed groups is financed by the sale of minerals needed for the manufacture of cell phones....

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Expedition Congo (2013)

aka: Congo

Director

Brian Leith

Subject

Biology; Natural history

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 147 minutes), £14.19

First broadcast in 2001, this BBC documentary series focuses on the Congo River of Central Africa by exploring the rich variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 4, 700...

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Massana: Moments in Yaka Play and Ritual (1998 Video)

Director

Ingrid Lewis; Jerome Lewis

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

A humourous yet in-depth look at massana (children’s play) amongst the Ba-aka ‘Pygmies’ of Congo.

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Congo Famine Relief

Date released

1960

Series name

Federal Spotlight

Issue no

120

NoS ID

351517

Story no

2 / 6

BFI synopsis: UN planes take Rhodesian relief to Southern Congo.

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Kentu (1975 Film)

Director

Herbert Risz

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Emanicipation of women in sub-Saharan Africa is rather different from in the West. This film studies five women and their families in the Congo who have rejected the idea of love and the couple as the basis...

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Act of Killing, The (2013)

Director

Joshua Oppenheimer

Producer

Werner Herzog; Errol Morris

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

THE ACT OF KILLING is a documentary about Anwar Congo, a gangster who, as leader of a death squad, committed mass murder during the killings of 1965 - 1966, which took place following the failed coup of the...

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News in Brief

Date released

6 Jan 1947

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1719

NoS ID

149096

Story no

4 / 7

Water gala in Belgian Congo.

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