| Description | Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Films.
GP48 'Actor Mark Heath as Field Marshal Idi Amin in a scene from the film Operation Thunderbolt'. Sitting in uniform. Black and white photo.
GP49 'A scene from Africa Addio, conceived written and directed by Jacopetti and Prosperi. The story of a continent in turmoil. Photographed by Antonio Climati. Music by Riz Ortolani.General Organization Stanis Nievo. Technicolour/Techniscope. A Rizzoli Films Production released by Golden Era Film Distributions Limited'. Hostages in white are being forced down a desert hill and through a gate by armed men. Black and white photo.
GP50 Possibly a scene from the film Africa Addio. An armed man is pointing a gun at the chest of another man. AA-140 written on the bottom of the picture. Black and white photo.
GP51 Two copies of the same photo. Two captions on the back. Scenes from the movie Africa Addio. Caption 1: 'The new Africa emerges over the graves of thousands of whites and arabs, millions of blacks and over those bleak boneyards that once were the game reserves. Death follows the revolutions in the Congo, Zanzibar and Tanganyika'. Caption 2: 'Today it is the rebels turn to suffer. Tomorrow when the mercenaries move on other rebels will return. The endless cycle, a dance of death that has lasted five years'. The picture has an officer and other men taking notes about, and looking over white blanket, covered bodies. Two women sit on the ground and there is a flock of crane-like birds in the background. Black and white photo.
GP62 Caption on the back reads: 'Strangers in a foreign country - a country that grows ever hotter and more hostile. The little colony of penguins was stranded at the Cape of Good Hope centuries ago'. Scene from the film Africa Addio. A group of penguins sit on a rock together. Black and white photo.
GP53 A lion in mid-yawn laying on the grass beside a few cars. Possibly a scene from the film Africa Addio. Black and white photo.
GP54 A little boy sitting next to some leaves and a fallen over statue of [the Virgin Mary]. Possibly a scene from the film Africa Addio. Black and white photo.
GP55 A person wearing nothing but bottoms standing beside a ladder reaching under their arm, while two women walk behind them. A scene from the film Africa Addio. Black and white photo.
GP56 Two men (one inside the building, one outside the building) exchanging a firearm while a third makes notes about it. A scene from the film Africa Addio. Black and white photo.
GP57 A soldier takes cover behind something (possibly a car). Masks are sitting on it at his eye level. as he peers around it. Possibly from the film Africa Addio. Black and white photo. |