Africa Speaks!
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Director Walter Futter Narrated by Lowell Thomas Distributor Columbia Pictures Writer Walter Futter Language English | 5.2/10 IMDb Production Mascot Pictures Genre Documentary Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 15, 1930 (1930-08-15) Similar movies Africa Screams (1949), Africa: The Serengeti (1994), Yellowneck (1955), Aces and Eights (1936), White Pongo (1945) Tagline The sound camera makes the dark continent give up its most amazing and closely-guarded secrets. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas.
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Plot summary
Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa.
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. Wildlife footage from the film was later reused in the twelve "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" films.
Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.
DVD release
Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.
References
Africa Speaks! Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Africa Speaks! IMDb Africa Speaks! themoviedb.org