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  1. Hadza, The: The Food Quest of an East African Hunting and Gathering Tribe (1966 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £30.00

    In Africa, south of the Sahara, the great majority of the population live by peasant farming. But scattered over the continent are a number of small groups who neither cultivate nor herd stock and who obtain...

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  2. Joking Relationship, A (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows a joking relationship between !Nai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great uncle, /Ti!kay. They flirt together under a baobab tree. The joking relationship is an important institution in !Kung...

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  3. Kung Hunting Equipment (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Construction of a hunting kit from raw materials and preparation of poisonous larvae and plants to coat arrow shafts. Use of equipment during a hunt. Note: The material for the film was shot in the 1950s.

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  4. N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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  5. Wasp Nest, The (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows a group of women and children as they gather berries and roots. Younger women bait a nest of wasps. Note: the material for the film was shot in the 1950s.

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  6. Let My People Go (1961)

    Director
    John Krish
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £20.00

    A polemical film which uses voiceover and reconstructed scenes intercut with newsreel material, including footage of the Sharpeville massacre, to present an indictment of the Apartheid system in South Africa.

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  7. African Conflict (1957 Film)

    Producer
    Edward R Murrow
    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Interviews with Father Trevor Huddleston, Prime Minister J G Strijdom, Professor Leo Marquand and others. Deals with the problem of apartheid.

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  8. Maitres Fous, Les (1955 Film)

    aka: Mad Masters, The

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...

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  9. Desert Victory: The Battle of El Alamein (1943)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Producer
    David MacDonald
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £14.99 (QL/retail)

    Documentary, with some re-enacted material. Official British war film. The story of the British Eighth Army’s victory at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, and its advance across nearly 1400 miles of desert...

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  10. Sanders of the River (1935 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Presents a selectively constructed but positive view of British colonial administration in Africa and of the nature and capabilities of the African. The tone and theme of the film are set by...

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