This film opens with a glimpse of the natives in their villages. These villages furnish native labour for the farms, cities and mines of the country. We are shown glimpses of Johannesburg, which lies on a plateau and developed out of the extensive gold-mining operations in that region. A visit to a mining engineer and his family living in the suburbs indicates that their traditions derive from the Dutch and English who constituted the original white population. There are views of the large cattle ranches on the veldt, the orange groves, and, in the south, grape country. The processes of gold mining and the demand mines at Kimberly are shown. The film closes with views of Captetown, the seaport.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322664
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Diamond mines and mining
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Farm life - South Africa
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Gold mines and mining
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industries - South Africa
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industry
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industry - History
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industry - Social aspects
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Cape Town (South Africa)
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Dutch - South Africa
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Johannesburg (South Africa)
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Mining towns
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → South Africa
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → South Africa - Social life and customs
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Village communities
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Village communities - Africa
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Colonies
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Imperialism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Industry - Social aspects
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → South Africa - Economic conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → South Africa - Social conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Village communities
Places → Cape Town (South Africa)
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)