https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/468934ef-73f1-489f-bf1e-0b7990cb0668 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This untitled, uncredited silent, mostly unedited black-and-white film chronicles Paul Louis Hoefler’s Colorado African Expedition of 1928-1929. Specifically, the film looks at the traditional lion hunting ceremony of the Maasai people in Kenya’s Savanna. Hoefler, who was born in Spokane, Washington in 1893, was an esteemed Hollywood cameraman and cinematographer who gained notoriety in the late 1920s after returning from the Denver African Expedition of 1925 with what was reportedly the first film footage of Southwest Africa's Bushmen. After the first successful expedition, Hoefler went on to lead the Colorado African Expedition, which was the first complete trans-Africa journey, and produced the first sound film of Africa called 'Africa Speaks.' Hoefler’s objectives for the expeditions were to study and photograph native and animal life across Africa, specifically, he had a particular interest in studying the Nandi and Maasai of East Africa, the Efé of the Belgian Congo, the Sara Kyabé of the French Congo, as well as lions, birds, and rhinos. Note: this footage was marked "Rolls 5-10" on the canister. Presumably there was a lot more footage shot as part of this expedition but its whereabouts are unknown. Film opens to group of Maasai men sitting in brush of African Savanna under Acacia trees, spears sticking up from ground (0:01). Camera pans men in attendance, men all wear cloth fabric wrapped around torso and waist, ears adorned with heavy earrings (0:25). Young man runs to tell another villager that the hunt will begin, man who was standing beside straw hut grabs ‘oblong shield/ o’longo’ (Maasai shield), spear, and what looks like feathered headdress and costume emulating the shape of an ostrich (1:06). The man in the ostrich costume runs into other villagers and alerts them that the hunt has begun, other men quickly grab their shields, spears, and a tall feathered head piece and run into the Savanna (1:44). Likely Paul L. Hoefler operates camera from the flat bed of one of the expedition trucks of Hoefler’s Colorado African Expedition (2:05). Sea of oblong shields and spears moving in unison as men perform pre-hunt ceremonial dance; Close-up men’s faces and bodies adorned with paint (2:10). Map of African continent highlighting Sahara Desert, South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and expedition route spanning the Kenya Colony, Tanganyika, Uganda, West Nile, Belgian Congo, French Congo, Chad, and Nigeria (2:48). Various wild animals graze along vast Savanna plain (3:27). Members of Hoefler’s expedition set up camera equipment amid tall grass, shrubs (3:45). Herd of male and female impalas (4:05). Maasai safari leader, asleep in vehicle, accidentally honks car horn, causing impalas to run quickly across the Savanna (4:58). Sky dotted with swarm of locusts (5:47). Stampede of wildebeests run through locust storm (7:24). Hoefler and crew emerge from behind shrub with camera equipment, slowly approach group of lionesses feasting on prey (8:38). Maasai warriors sit still as sculptures with shields, spears at the ready in tall grass of Savanna plain; Lion approaches and men jump into action and commence hunt (11:02). Men form circle with shields around hunted lioness, one of the men performs ceremonial dance around the prey inside circle (13:02). Flock of wildebeests (13:14). Lionesses stalk prey from under tree, shot of lionesses feasting on gazelle carcass (13:44). Film ends (15:29). 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