Door het oerwoud naar de bronnen van de Nijl

Summary

Travelogue of the expedition Theo Regout and his wife Luise made through Africa to Lake Victoria.
The couple travel part of the same route Regout had done three years earlier for his film Dwars door de Sahara naar het land van de slaapziekte. Afterwards they cross the Belgian Congo and Uganda until they reach the final destination - Lake Victoria.
Near Nairobi they visit a wildlife park with zebras and giraffes, in the Tanganyika territory they meet a Masai tribe.
They return to Europe by boat; via the Red Sea, Port Said and the Suez Canal.

Information

production year
1934
censorship date
23-04-1934
country
Netherlands
geographical names
Africa, Algeria, Algiers, Egypt, Kenya, Lake Albert, Lake Victoria, Mali, Nile, Port Said, Soudan, Suez Canal, Tanzania, Uganda
category
Non-fictional
genre
documentary
director
Theo Regout

Crew

Technical notations

original length
500
censorship length
500
sound
Silent
colour
Black & White
format
16mm

Resources

Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; B828)

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