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| − | A short film about the Xhosa prophetess [[Nonquassi]] (today mostly referred to as [[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." | + | A short film about the [[Xhosa]] prophetess [[Nonquassi]] (today mostly referred to as [[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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Nonquassi is an English short film by Leon Schauder (1919-1967)
The film
A short film about the Xhosa prophetess Nonquassi (today mostly referred to as 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]
http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541
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