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| − | + | ''[[Nonquassi (film)|Nonquassi]]'' is an English short film by [[Leon Schauder]] | |
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| + | A short foilm about the Xhosa prophetess [[Nongqawuse]] and the 1856-7 cattle-killing. The description in the online catalogue of ''Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire''[http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541] says: "Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany." | ||
Filmed by [[Leon Schauder]] for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939. | Filmed by [[Leon Schauder]] for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939. | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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Sheila Boniface Davies (compiler): 2010. ''Creative accounts of the Xhosa cattle-killing''[http://www.persistentfrontiers.com/xhosacattlekilling/docs/sbd-creativeaccounts.pdf] | Sheila Boniface Davies (compiler): 2010. ''Creative accounts of the Xhosa cattle-killing''[http://www.persistentfrontiers.com/xhosacattlekilling/docs/sbd-creativeaccounts.pdf] | ||
http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541 | http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541 | ||
Revision as of 06:40, 19 June 2022
Nonquassi is an English short film by Leon Schauder
The film
A short foilm about the Xhosa prophetess Nongqawuse and the 1856-7 cattle-killing. The description in the online catalogue of Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire[1] says: "Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany."
Filmed by Leon Schauder for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939.
Sources
Sheila Boniface Davies (compiler): 2010. Creative accounts of the Xhosa cattle-killing[2]
