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:

Michael A. Gonzales said...

i'm going to miss you...

Undercover Black Man said...

^ Thanks, Mike.

lawegohard said...

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

Castle films history:

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