Africa Speaks!


Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.

Premise

heads a 1928 expedition to Africa capturing wildlife and tribes on film.

Production

Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.
Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.

DVD release

Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.