MCU women in Muslim head scarves on bustling streets.
Host Ali Mazrui discusses the different system of slavery practiced by the Arabs versus the Anglo-Saxon forms and its impact on the form of society.
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
Host Ali Mazrui walks through brush, enters an underground cavern (slave cave) near Zanzibar. VO says the practice of slavery by the Arabs gave justification for the Anglo-Saxons and other Europeans to drive the Arabs out of East Africa in their colonial efforts. LS cave interior as Mazrui walks down steps.
DO NOT USE: Illustrations by Western colonial propagandists portraying the alleged cruelty of Arab slavemasters.
Host Ali Mazrui at entrance of cave talking about slave trade.
DO NOT USE: More illustrations of anti-Arab propaganda cartoons endorsing European colonialism. Illustration of 1845 Berlin Conference where Europeans partition Africa for Colonialism.
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
Archival B&W clip of KING LEOPOLD of Belgium.
DO NOT USE Archival feature film of African men on canoe trip up the Congo river.
Mr. Mazrui, standing near a Colonial prison building in the Congo, discusses the brutality of colonial oppression.
Archival film of Africans under forced labor, building a Colonial railroad while colonial masters watch passively. The slaves hammer and saw and lift and carry and chop in strict unison.
DO NOT USE: Still of boy slaves with amputated hands or feet, given as punishment for not working hard enough;
Archival film of British Colonials in pith helmets directing laborers, MS British Colonials keeping journal logs.
DO NOT USE: Still of female slave laborer w/amputated foot.
Archival film of African slave laborers using axes to chop away at log. CU British Colonial with pith helmet blowing whistle.
DO NOT USE: Still of young boy w/mputated hand. Still of British Colonial w/ male slaves.
Tournament of Roses - Rose Parade "Daydreams in Flowers" 1958. Footage of extravagant, colorful, floats, beauty queens & spectators lining the route. GV "Standard Oil Company of California" entry featuring Asian Pagoda float, zoom in. GV Standard Oil float on the move, woman waving. MSs South Gate entry, Peter Pan Never-Never Land float. MS Alhambra entry with bathing beauties waving from "California Here I Come" float.
Tournament of Roses - Rose Parade "Tall Tales and True" 1960. Footage of extravagant, colorful, floats, beauty queens & spectators lining the route.
MS Union Oil entry featuring Anthony & Cleopatra themed float. GV Cleopatra & Mark Anthony float travelling away from cam. Great GV parade crowd, Caucasian men, women & children of varying age, man in FG snaps a photograph with still camera.
TLS Palm Springs entry featuring Pegleg Mine inspired float heading toward camera, several "Tournament of Roses" banners seen stretched across the street. MS Pegleg Mine float with women waving.
MS/GV See's Candy Shop float with children riding & waving. GV/MS San Bernardino-National Orange Show entry with beauties smiling & waving from Fiesta Mexicana themed float with giant orange slices & oxen cart.
TLS San Antonio, Texas entry moving along the parade route, "Tournament of Roses" banners seen stretched across the street. MS San Antonio float featuring "Heroes of the Alamo" theme. MS San Diego "Sister Cities" entry featuring a Japanese inspired float complete with women in Kimonos waving.
GV Portland float on parade. MS Glendale "Tales of the 49'ers" entry, featuring an elaborate float with cover wagon & mountain range.