Summary

ETHIOPIA: AFRICA'S ANCIENT KINGDOM

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: ETHIOPIA: AFRICA'S ANCIENT KINGDOM
File Number: FRA-4 DigiBeta
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1960
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1960s Semi-ethnographic documentary about the history, culture and geography of Ethiopia Excellent footage of Haile Selassie Directed by Frederic Christian 01:11:51:00 Color 1960s VS WS Ethiopian landscape vistas - mountains, desert, savanna 01:12:23:00 Color 1960s A sea of faces: WS a crowd of Ethiopian men looking in the direction of CAM 01:12:38:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian Coptic clergymen wearing ornate and colorful robes walk in Christian religious procession 01:12:43:00 Color 1960s VS a ceremonial procession of Ethiopian tribal chiefs: crowds watch as stern-faced chief men wearing costumes ride horses down street 01:13:06:00 Color 1960s Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie stands on podium with royal pomp during photo-op, dignitaries in BG Selassie sitting at a patio table before a meal 01:13:30:00 Color 1960s On-screen map of Ethiopia and the entire Horn of Africa region 01:13:50:00 Color 1960s WS a green valley with river in Ethiopia 01:14:06:00 Color 1960s VS a crowd of traditionally dressed (white robes, mostly) Ethiopian people gathered in marketplace or public square of village 01:14:39:00 Color 1960s Amhara (aristocratic Ethiopian class) man and woman smile and pose for CAM 01:14:57:00 Color 1960s An Ethiopian Muslim Gallah (sp?) woman poses for CAM in desert village 01:15:09:00 Color 1960s VS Ethiopian people of the nomadic Denakil tribe gathered near desert village, one woman is topless and tries to cover herself for CAM elderly man bats away flies from his face CU woman with flies on her face 01:15:39:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian government dignitaries officials seated together 01:15:48:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian village scenes, all people are traditionally dressed peasants: people (mostly women bearing baskets on their heads) walk down dirt-path between small stone buildings thatched-roof huts man building a thatched- roof hut squatting farmer man hacks at harvested crop plants with ax implement 01:16:44:00 Color 1960s Two Ethiopian women wade in shallow lake and fill earthenware jugs with water another woman does her laundry by scrubbing clothing against rock in shallow water of lake 01:17:02:00 Color 1960s VS Ethiopian woman basket-weaving 01:17:30:00 Color 1960s VS young, serious-looking Ethiopian women and girls knitting clothing blankets - needlework 01:17:31:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian silversmith man works on a piece of fine silver work with his apprentice son 01:17:55:00 Color 1960s WS grazing cattle 01:18:05:00 Color 1960s WS Ethiopian farmers sifting freshly harvested tef grain 01:18:19:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian farmer holds plow as his pair of yoked oxen buffalo cattle pull it across farm field 01:18:35:00 Color 1960s CU Ethiopian farmer's hand picking through a basket of freshly harvested coffee beans 01:18:45:00 Color 1960s Shoppers examine white shamma robe clothing hanging on display at Ethiopian marketplace bazaar 01:18:50:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian women spinning raw cotton into yarn by hand 01:18:59:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian boys smile and hold up bunches of fresh produce on sale at market for CAM 01:19:11:00 Color 1960s Herdsmen shepherds lead flock of sheep and a head of cattle to Ethiopian livestock market 01:19:24:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian herdsman leads his camels down desert trail 01:19:42:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian men carry rocks one at a time, to cobblestone road construction site 01:19:54:00 Color 1960s Peasants and donkeys walk down desert road bearing earthenware jugs 01:20:04:00 Color 1960s Herd of donkeys share the road with pedestrians and car traffic in Ethiopian city - probably Addis Ababa 01:20:15:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian wildlife animal montage: lions hyenal baboon hippopotami wallowing in the Blue Nile River an elephant herd of buffalo or similar ruminant flock of birds dotting the sky 01:21:04:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian soldier performs a kind of gun drill on street while crowd watches 01:21:15:00 Color 1960s Addis Ababa: WS street scene, horse-drawn rickshaw traffic people gathered outside of a movie theater cinema EXT an office building heavily burdened donkeys are led through streets 01:21:42:00 Color 1960s WS daytime cityscape of Harer entrance gate to the city VS open-air marketplace scenes - food and fabric vendors, etc 01:22:19:00 Color 1960s EXT large Coptic Christian church VS churchgoers outside and entering church priests and clergy approach church in religious procession 01:22:52:00 Color 1960s Emperor Haile Slassie walking up steps to attend an event celebrating his return to Ethiopia from exile crowd waiting to listen to Selassie speak 01:23:14:00 Color 1960s VS ranks of Ethiopian soldiers march in gun drill 01:23:31:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian children climbing on a large outdoor sculpture monument of an Italian fasces a fasces sculpture atop an army barracks [Fascism] 01:23:44:00 Color 1960s VS a military convoy of supply-laden trucks slowly moves along road 01:24:09:00 Color 1960s POV AV bird's-eye view of Massawa sea port in Eritrea 01:24:20:00 Color 1960s Crates are loaded aboard freighter ship from Massawa waterfront dock 01:24:28:00 Color 1960s Asmara, Eritrea city street scenes - pedestrians, cars, horse-drawn rickshaws 01:24:42:00 Color 1960s EXT Haile Selassie's palace foreign dignitaries socializing in the palace garden VS the extravagantly set patio dinner table with silver service and the like Selassie eating a meal at small patio table Selassie holding a baby in the garden Selassie petting his pet dog and pet lion cub 01:26:02:00 Color 1960s Crowd of Ethiopian children walk toward school building 01:26:13:00 Color 1960s Ethiopian sports event: Haile Selassie looks through binoculars long jump event high jump event barefoot runners in race Selassie distributes medals to winning athletes 01:26:41:00 Color 1960s Haile Selassie deplanes from an Ethiopian Airways airplane entourage follows him as he walks away from airplane 01:26:50:00 Color 1960s VS the opening ceremony for a bridge spanning the Blue Nile River crowd gathers and listens as Haile Selassie reads a speech, his wife the Empress stands by his side
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