The Ancient Africans

Duration: 0:27:00

Year Published: 1970

Creator: International Film Foundation

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Animated drawings, maps, and pictures of art objects from six museums are intercut with location photography of Kush and Axum areas to show life today in the ancient Sudanic kingdoms and in Benin. Includes scenes of the stone walls of Zimbabwe.

Complete Record: A review of African civilization from ancient times to the present using animated historical sequences, filmed art objects from six museums, location photography of the ruins of Kush and Axum and the stone walls of Zimbabwe, and films of life today in the ancient Sudanic kingdoms and Benin.

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqGp2NSHnc

Metadata Source:YouTube

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6 users have this film:
16mmEducationalFilms Youtube, Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library, Oddball Film and Video, University of Maryland 16mm, Visual Studies Workshop

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