Savannahs and Woodlands of Africa

The film tells about the natural conditions of Africa. African landscapes with Mount Kilimanjaro. The flora and fauna of the savannah: trees and shrubs, thickets of grass and acacia, a panorama of the baobab tree, palm trees by the water, gallery forests along the river; general views of dry and cracked land, dry river bed during dry winter; marabou storks hunt catfish in a dried-up river, elephants and waterbirds in search of water in the savanna, peasant pastoralists wander with herds of cows on the savanna, farmers clear land for crops, work in the field, harvest peanuts. Cultivation of cotton, sisal in the fields. Farmers harvest sisal-agave, from the leaves of which they get strong fiber. Fiber making. General view of a village in the African savannah. Diverse savannah fauna: lions, elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, various species of antelopes, zebras, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, aardvarks that devour termites; vultures in the grass with prey, crocodile in the thickets of the river.

B&W

1

1971