In the Land of Giants and Pygmies

Name: In the Land of Giants and Pygmies
Released: 1925-01-01
Duration: 8 min

6.019250h 8mmovie

IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" infl...