![]() Ostriches flee the camera man at a rate calculated by an auto's speedometer to be forty miles per hour. ![]() Gazelles flit through the high grass of the prairie. Giraffe stalk like mannikins before the camera. Egrets are seen perched like so many blossoms on a gigantic bush at the stream's edge. Wilde-beeste and hartebeeste are etched against the mist of the veldt. The rest is good, including some beautiful shots of wild animals at a water hole. ![]() While it is replete with thrills and incidents worth seeing, which could have occurred only on the Dark Continent, the picture is hardly different from other African film jaunts that heretofore have been seen under native names.It would seem that to show a film of Africa the following ingredients must be incorporated: A shot showing natives listening to a phonograph native women with pickaninnies slung on their backs a boat party on the river which winds into the wild country scenes of tribal dances with subtitles comparing them to the Black Bottom and Charleston an elephant's footprint and then a scene of the hunter carrying an electric rifle and sliding down the pachyderm's back, and a view of several dead lions, tigers or cheetahs, with a substitle forecasting how natural they will look when stuffed and shown in a museum in Pittsburgh."The Wild Heart of Africa" has all of this and more. "The Wild Heart of Africa" at the Cameo is the film record of the Walker-Arbuthnot hunting expedition in the Taganyika territory of East Africa.
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