Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.[2]
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Directed by | Walter Futter |
Written by | Walter Futter |
Produced by | Walter Futter Paul L. Hoefler |
Narrated by | Lowell Thomas |
Cinematography | Paul L. Hoefler |
Edited by | Walter Futter |
Production company | Mascot Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | less than $50,000[1] |
Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa capturing wildlife and tribes on film.
Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.[1]
Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.[3]
The title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams.
Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.[4]
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