IN WILDEST AFRICA
SIX MONTHS GETTING SCENES Thrilling scenes ot wild life in Africa are contained in the Paramount epic of the Soudan, “The Four Feathers ’ which will be shown this year in New Zealand. Ernest Schoedaaik and Mona i Cooper, the producers of the picture, “shot” most of these scenes in tha Sudan, and the remainder in Portuguese East Africa. For six months they lived among the native tribes, whom Kipling christened the “Fuzzy - Wuzzys,” learning their ways and teaching them to act for th* movie camera. One remarkable scene shows thousands of these warriors streaming across the desert wastes on their racing camels, to give battle to th* British forces. hater they are shown attacking a British square. Another impressive sequence showthe mad flight of a herd of hippopotami before the driving flames of a bush fire, {and their plunge for safety down th* ; precipitous banks of a river. A herd of baboons is also seen in tiighU
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 784, 3 October 1929, Page 17
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