Madina-Boe (sound)

Description: Content warning: This film contains graphic images of nudity and human disfigurement.

"Un film-reportaje sobre un episodio de la guerra de liberacion del pueblo de la Guinea Llamada Portuguesa"

Documentary with Portuguese narration and Portuguese and English titles following the activities of the People's Army for the Independence of Guinea Bissau / Cape Verde from Portugal. It documents the combatants' political education, guerrilla and medical techniques, and physical training. It also explains the practical and philosophical nature of armed struggle in Guinea Bissau. The film contains a rare interview with Amilcar Cabral, a leading African political theorist and founder of the PAIGC independence movement.

Can notes: "Medina Boe Print #1 / San Francisco Newsreel, 630 Natoma Street, SF, CA 94103"

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Subjects: 1960s, Colonialism--Resistance to, War, Politics and government, Indigenous history and culture , Indigenous people , Indigenous peoples, Medicine

Tags: chalkboard maps; wartime; fighting; military training; guerrilla warfare; guerrilla tactics; strategy; physical conditioning; gratuitous breast shot; resting in the jungle; hair combing; cooking over open fire; hammocks; washing in the river; laundry; camouflage; rice; ancestral rites; dramatizations; grain; hulling grain; hunting for food; tribal cultures; canoes; musical instruments; mess kits; berimbao; hungo; fire dancing; soccer; football; carrying things on one's head; carrying artillery on head; revolution; medical care; political leaders; Kuluna D'Acosta; antifascism; anticolonialism; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s

Film Sponsor:

Creator: El Instituto Cubano Del Arte, E Industria Cinematograficos, La Ospaaal

Credits: Realizado por Jose Massip
Y por Dervis Pastor Espinosa Camarografo
Y por Gloria Arguelles Editora
Roberto Valera Compositor
Enrique Pineda Narrador
Carlos Fernancez Sonido
Pucheux - Martinez - Delia - Trucaje
Canciones Cantadas por el coro de niños de La Escuela del Partido Africano por la Indepencia de Guinea y Cabo Verde en Conakry Republica de Guinea
Y por guerrilleros de Boe Guinea Llamada Portuguesa

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: California Newsreel

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1969

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Guinea-Bissau; Guinea; Boké, Guinea

Genre/Form: activist, documentary

Language: por,eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process: Agfa

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1260