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De voortrekkers = Winning a continent / by Gustav S. Preller ; adapted and produced by Harold Shaw.
LIBRA DVD 019 567
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Afrikaans
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Afrikaners--History--Drama.
- Afrikaners.
- Propaganda, South African.
- Race relations.
- History.
- South Africa--History--1836-1909--Drama.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--History--Great Trek, 1836-1840--Drama.
- South Africa--Race relations--Drama.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Winning a continent
- Place of Publication:
- [Vancouver, B.C.]: [Villon Films], [between 1990 and 1999]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English and Afrikaans intertitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This feature film from 1916 tells the story of South Africa's Boer pioneers in their epic trek across southern Africa in search of new land. It concentrates on the struggle against Zulu inhabitants, which the Boers eventually won at the Battle of Blood River in 1938. But it is of course history told from the point of view of the conqueror, and shows us a zulu enemy heathen, Treacherous, and barbaric. This is "history" just as mythologized as the American conquest of the West, concealing brutal conquest and theft of land.
- Notes:
- Original production: c1916.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- OCLC:
- 123417883
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