Africa speaks film opening. 1930.

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Africa speaks film opening. 1930.

Photographs taken at the Globe Theater opening of Africa speaks, a documentary film made about the Colorado African Expedition, 1928-1929, the first trans-African journey across central equatorial Africa by motor vehicle, from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic coast. Paul Hoefler led the expedition and produced the film. Three of the images depict Hoefler with various dignitaries, including J. Doherty, the Government Coastal Agent at Mombasa. The fourth image shows two native African men holding a leopard cub.

4 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 15 x 10 cm.

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Hoefler, Paul L. (Paul Louis), 1893-1982

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Paul L. Hoefler was a cinematographer and adventurer who in 1925 produced the earliest motion picture showing Bushmen of southern Africa and in 1931 the earliest sound documentary film, also set in Africa. Both African film expeditions were organized and carried out while he lived in Denver. Paul Louis Hoefler was born in 1893 in Spokane, Washington. He started in photography at an early age and by his late teens was active in Hollywood in bit parts and behind a film camera. His first big assign...