Rhodesia

Series

Series Name
Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
503
Date Released
17 Aug 1964
Date recorded
17 Jul 1964
Length of issue (in feet)
769
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
Pathe synopsis: Kariba Dam - and modern man has tamed the wild Zambesi river. We catch tiger fish where submerged forests still show their top branches just over the surface of the world’s biggest man-made lake. Yet you find buffalo on the brink of the most audacious electricity project that civilised man can devise. To see African craftsmen at work forging their hunting spears with sheepskin bellows you have to go to one of the exhibition villages kept going for tourists, because tribal life is dying out. In the Wankie National Park you see lion, giraffe, elephant and antelope. Nature in the raw. Untamed power which you find hard to equate with Kariba’s concrete arch.
Keywords
Engineering; Scenery and travel
Locations
Zambesi River; Kariba Dam
Written sources
Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis
Credits:
Commentator
Richard Norton
Length of story (in feet)
731
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Rhodesia', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 503, 17 Aug 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121546 (Accessed 03 Mar 2025)