A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland - The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas

By Major H. Schomburgk, F.R.G.S. It was after my return from my first West African cinema expedition, in June 1913, that I made up my mind to try and film native dramas in their true and proper settings. My aim was to visualise, as it were, for the European public, scenes from African native life as it once was all over the continent, and as it is even now in the more remote and seldom-visited parts; and it was further my object to so present the various incidents as to ensure their being pleasing and interesting to all classes and conditions of people. To this end, then, it became necessary for me to find a white woman capable of acting the principal parts, supported by native supers. My thoughts at once reverted to Miss Gehrts, a lady with whom I have been acquainted for some little while, and whom I knew to be a keen sportswoman, a good rider, and possessed of histrionic ability of no mean order. It did not take me long to persuade her to accept the offer I made her; but her parents raised many objections, based principally on the supposed dangers and privations which they assumednot altogether wronglyto be inseparable from the trip. These objections, however, were eventuallyvi overcome, the enterprise was undertaken and brought to a successful conclusion, and this book is one result of it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45442
Author: Gehrts, Meg
Release Date: Apr 20, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English