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    ... and its People.

    Reviewers responded favourably to An African Derby, suggesting that the film should & ... and Livestock Rearing in Lesotho’, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3. (September 1995), 491-507 ...

     
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    ... The film repeatedly illustrates the distinctive customs of the Africans, most notably at the Great Palaver of the Head ... narrative terms appears a precursor to the British Instructional Film, An African Derby (1927), the Prince attends a local ...
     
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    ... alongside the series’ other episodes. Furthermore, An African Derby, released in February 1927 as part of the ... in the ‘unsophisticated’ customs of the Africans.

    Secondly, these sequences, presented as documentary facts, ...

     
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    ... on the identical thing as performed by the native girls in an African village’ (Stark Nature Pressbook).

    ... , as the films of The Empire Series – such as An African Derby (1927) – demonstrate, often ...

     
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    ... directly to the camera, as subjects of ethnographic study, so that an African with elongated ears is depicted in close-up, initially facing ... within films from the Empire Series such as An African Derby. It relates local scenes to British life & ...
     
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    ... arrived soldiers of the 81st West African Division then play drums and ... of Colonial Film Unit productions, such as An African in London (1941) or Nurse Ademola ... troops within this image. At the Derby, attended by the Royals, the commentary ...
     
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    ... to Cotton'. Some children in blackface feature as part of the South African parade, followed by displays for New Zealand and Australia, ... ; (English, 2006, 259). In 1909 the education committee in Derby also declined to sanction Empire Day, denouncing it as ...
     
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    RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTCentral African Federation

    VIP's in the Federation - Field Marshall Sir Gerald Templar & ... switiching station.

    New Seasons - new tobacco auctions.

    Rhodesian Derby - at Belverdere, Salisbury.

    Lake Nyasa Survey.

     
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    ... , Indian and Australian horsemen leading, with New Zealand, South African, Newfoundland, British West Indian and Canadian horsemen as rear ... .

    Sir Francis Lloyd, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lord Derby are seen arriving in turn by car for the opening of ...

     
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    ... London (including Covent Garden, 'Boomerang Club' in Australia House, and Derby Day at Epsom); drill. The day of the Parade: Reveille ... but also shots of spectators, King and Queen, Indian and African troops, Fire Service, and a glimpse of Montgomery) under ...