[Charles Gilbert--home movies] NHF Reel 024

Datecirca 1930

Can DescriptionsNHF Cataloguer's notes as follows. Intertitles in quotes; film box notes/dates in parentheses. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 24: ('Durban' The Garden City of South African Coast). (42:25). 'Durban The Garden City of the South African Coast'. 'Photography by Lynn Acutt.' Sailboats in harbor. Black men loading bales on truck. A crowded beach. Men fishing off pier and in the water. Gathering fish on dock. Crowded beach. Two women feeding baboons. A whale carcass being stripped. Marketplace, blacks only. Washing down a baby elephant. (45:35). CU native woman with young boy. Ceremonial dances by group of males, two men engaged in mock combat. Ceremonial dance by women. Two cobras. A woman filming a man in elaborate costume as he beckons riders to his rickshaw. Same man sitting down, flanked by two men similarly costumed. A white man and woman being pulled in his rickshaw. 'The End'.