Sahara (silent)

Description: Content warning: Ethnocentric stereotyping throughout and racist description of North African people at 5:29.

A travelogue and educational film about life in the Sahara region.

From The World Parade series.

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Subjects: 1940s, Racism , Colonialism, People of African origin or descent, Religion, Middle Eastern or North African history and culture

Tags: exoticism; donkeys plowing; camels; deserts; guns; horseback riding; mosques; prayer; weaving; pottery; drums; dancing; veiled women; snake charming; cobras; walking on broken glass; fire-eating; sand storms; windy; Islam; Muslim; people of color; French Foreign Legion; riding horse and shooting guns; intertitles; North African people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Castle Films

Credits: Edited by Eugene W. Castle

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros., Orgone Archive, Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date: circa 1942

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Morocco; Fez, Morocco; Sahara Desert

Genre/Form: educational

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 355