Africa Speaks!

1930 film

  • August 15, 1930 (1930-08-15)
Running time
75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudgetless than $50,000[1]

Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.[2]

Premise

Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa capturing wildlife and tribes on film.

Production

Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.[1]

Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.[3]

The title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams.

Home media

Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[4]

See also

  • Goona-goona epic

References

  1. ^ a b Doherty, Thomas Patrick (1999). Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930–1934. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 239–41. ISBN 0-231-11094-4.
  2. ^ Crafton, Donald (November 22, 1999). The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931. University of California Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-520-22128-4.
  3. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (2010). Columbia Pictures: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982. McFarland. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7864-4447-2.
  4. ^ "Alpha Video - Africa Speaks". Retrieved June 26, 2015.
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  • Africa Speaks! at IMDb
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