Thursday, April 30, 2009

Pygmies on film

Documentary filmmakers have always been fascinated by the indigenous peoples of the Central African rainforest... the so-called “Pygmies.”

Here are three Pygmy travelogues, filmed from the late 1920s through the early ’50s.

3 comments:

  1. This is a delicious entry. I will have to eat this tonight.

    Castle films history:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Films

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