De Boma à Tshela

1926 film

  • 1926 (1926)
Running time
29 minutesCountryBelgium

De Boma à Tshela is a Belgian 1926 documentary film.

Synopsis

Ernest Genval [fr] explores the scenery along the railway line that links Boma to Tshela in the Mayumbe area. The train passes through the lush and dense vegetation of the thick forests and stops by farm estates along the route like Lukula, the Urselia domain (a colonial manufacturer of cocoa powder and palm oil), Lubuzi River and its new bridge, the Kangu mission and Tshela, where manufactured products are loaded onto boats for shipment to Europe. The train journey is also an eyewitness account of the workings of a well-oiled colonial system and the development of the black workforce at its service.

External links

  • African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)[dead link]
  • De Boma à Tshela at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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