Africa Speaks!

Africa Speaks! (1930)

The sound camera makes the dark continent give up its most amazing and closely-guarded secrets.

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.

Date of release
1930-08-15
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary, Adventure, History
Director
Walter Futter

Casting

Interesting facts

Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American-French adventure documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.

Production

Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.

Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.

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