1954 SOUTH AFRICA TOURISM TRAVELOGUE JOHANNESBURG DURBAN MUIZENBERG KRUGER PARK XD45654

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1954 color tourism film directed by Harold C. Weaver and narrated by . Emmett for the South African Tourist Corporation provides a travelogue view of the region’s natural beauty and popular attractions from a distinctly British colonialist perspective that exoticises and otherizes native peoples, and does not mention the policy of apartheid (TRT 35:07). Opening titles: “Satour presents’’ and credits (0:06). An illustrated map shows the Cape of Good Hope, South West Africa, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal, and the cities of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban (0:27). Title card: “The Fairest Cape.” Cape Town is indicated on a map. Illustrations of colonialist ships. Pan to silver and porcelain china. Fade to relief sculptures (0:45). The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town (1:33). Table Mountain. Travelers disembark from an ocean
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