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The History of Botswanian Cinema from 1907 to the Present Day |
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| 1907 | ||||
| – The country's first film is shot by cameramen working for British-based American Charles Urban travelling up the Bechaunaland railway to Victoria Falls. Their film is soon followed by ones from ethnographer Rudolf Poch which are reputed to be partly in colour and with synchronised sound. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1910 | ||||
| - The country's third film is made by bioscope operators for the South African Railways and Harbours and the Coliseum Cinema. The films are phantom rides filmed from the front of moving trains, but the quality is said to be poor because the cameras jerk up and down. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| Jun - | The country's fourth film is made by the British company W. Butcher & son. They film at the London Missionary Society College of Tiger Kloof and at Serowe. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1943 | ||||
| – Miss D Murch, matron at the Lobatse government hospital, shoots a 30-minute colour silent film of British army African Pioneer Corps recruits undergoing training. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1944 | ||||
| – South African Graham Young is paid £50 per month to tour the country making films to entertain troops. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1947 | ||||
| – Bill Lewis, a professional film-maker from Cape Town shoots a 20-minute silent colour film of the royal visit of King George VI, his wife Elizabeth and their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1949 | ||||
| 25/8 - | British Movietone Newsreels first relate the story of Ruth Williams, the white British girl who married African prince Seretse Khama. Their story becomes the improbable basis for Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1953 | ||||
| – Louis Knobel, an employee of South African Information Services, makes a 17-minute film about the Kalahari bushmen called Remnants of a Dying Race. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1957 | ||||
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– The Hunters, a documentary about a 13-day hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju’huansi tribesmen in Botswana is released by American filmmakers Robert Gardner and John Marshall. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1975 | ||||
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton re-marry 16 months after divorcing. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1976 | ||||
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Films of Note |
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| 1980 | ||||
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Films of Note |
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N!ai, the Story of a K!ung Woman (John Marshall, Adrienne Miesmer) [MORE] [ADD} |
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| 1989 | ||||
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Films of Note |
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