Congo Harvest - Wealth Of The World (1950)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- An Associated British Pathe Series.
CONGO HARVEST - WEALTH OF THE WORLD
Logo of hand holding a globe. Africa - various scenes: Jungle, trees, swamp, elephants, a deer, a monkey, a snake, snow-capped mountain, fast flowing river, barren landscape. Man beating drum. Camera pans around an African village. Camera pans along a row of seated African natives. The witch doctor dances in the centre of the group. A waterfall. Wildlife. A small paddle boat on a river. MS the natives and white safari man on-board. Men carrying boxes on their heads through the jungle. Several vies of the Conga river. Man climbing palm tree and cutting down the fruit. Boy fires bow and arrow. Men carry palms through the jungle. A man lights a fire by rubbing sticks together. Natives at work extracting palm oil from fruit by traditional methods.
Painting of William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme). A map of the Belgian Congo. The "white man" in consultation with tribesmen. CU the faces of tribes men. CU a handshake. Various scenes as the villages build a mill: Unloading goods from a barge, carring boxes through the jungle, workers on the site. Belgians, Britons and the men of the Congo work together. Men haul a huge boiler using ropes made from creepers. Palm trees. Women carrying baskets of fruit on their heads. Market trading. The bosses do deals with the locals.
Trees falling - clearing jungle. Men carrying burning torches. They set fire to trees and bush. Clouds of smoke. A view of large area of tree trunks not burned away. The tree trunks are levered and moved. Palms are planted.
Map of the Congo showing copper mines, roads, airports etc. Aerial shot of palm fields. Palm trees from the ground. African children at school sing a song and hold their fingers in the air. Older children going to school and doing physical exercise in playground. Classroom scenes, learning to write and type. Diving and swimming in a river.
Trucks carrying men to work in the plantations. Recruiting staff. Some have goats or dogs with them. Men are weighed and have their chests checked by doctor with stethoscope. Money is counted. Thumb print marks their receipt. Food being issued and clothes. Houses for the workers.
Men at work in the plantations. Working in mills, typing, woodworking etc. Trucks carrying fruit. Shovelling coal into furnaces. Factories and machines processing trees to make palm oil. Freight trains and ships.
School scenes. Mathematics lesson. Men picking up their wages. Mountains. Families in the jungles. Medical care for the local children. Doctors and nurses. Lake. Traditional music and dance. A child yawns. End titles: "Wealth of the World Series... in Association with Sofidoc and Film Centre. Music Composed and Conducted by Francis Chagrin".
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Note: with hindsight the commentary for this film seems rather patronising and jingoistic. The local people are described as being "backward" and of not being able to exploit the potential of their country's resources without the help of the white man. Safety print exists.
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Is this when Belgium was still chopping the people up?
The put the Belgians to shame once they got the chance to really chop EACH OTHER up😂😂😂😊
No,this is somewhat later, after it became possible to go in, and not come out a bowel movement.
This is after the Belgian government annexed the Congo from King Leopold. It got somewhat better, but fundamentally it was the same, miserable for the average congolese. The Belgians and other economic firms dominated and exploited the resources. They still do, just that the politicians in power are Black African congolese, not Belgians.
@@kindneybeanjoe Just the same as what is happening in South Africa since Apartheid was abolished and the blacks got the chance to destroy it,
Thank you to conserve my story
The title 😣😖
Love the history (painful as be) and pictures however 💪🏽👍🏽
I know.
They're being SO BLATANT with their disgust towards the Congolese.
All the wealth the world has acquired on the cost of my people will come back to Kongo, we will bring back our God given wealth that the West has exploited, you’ll give wether willingly or by force.
Amen my brother. 😢
But why don’t Congolese people exploit their own riches? Even before the colonizers, they didn’t wear gold or diamant , nor built cellphones with their own coltan?🤔🤔🤔👀👀👀
Congo population in 1950 - 12 million. Lower than Spain.
WHAT THE F...
They were kidnapped and human trafficked by Muslim Middle Easterners since the Caliphate times and after that Leopold of Belgium started murdering them in various inventive ways in mass in the late 19th century.
11:50 the biggest lie the west have tried to convince themselves ever since they discovered our beautiful holy land. We don’t need you, you need us, we were prospering before your arrival, you were all in misery before your arrival to Kongo.
Lol
Poor congolese 😮💨🇨🇩
If you think for 1 min that you or Leopold & his descendants, will escape the wrath to come for your greed & evil deeds think again keep 1 eye on the Sun if you dare.
They shall pay!!!
@@lubukokampi8664🤣🤣🤣
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Poor congolese 😮💨🇨🇩
So racist
What being introduced to the modern world is racist?
@@britannicgeneral7460 The fact that my comment goes over your head and you don't understand or see how racist it is is terrifying 😐 And sums it all up. Yikes 😬 😬 😬 😬 😬
@@britannicgeneral7460 Savior complex.
@@safirijorgensen7842 Goes over my head? I understood your comment completely but after watching this entire film I didn't see anything racist? You could see in the film the african people wanted to work in the plantations themselves... they weren't slaves...
@@britannicgeneral7460 Holy ish you are delusional. Wow.
I can't belive you said that. Colonialism was good then huh?