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An English short film 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."  
 
An English short film 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.
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Filmed by [[Leon Schauder]] for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939.
  
  

Revision as of 12:14, 7 January 2018

An English short film 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]

http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541