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Avec les Hommes de l'eau

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Avec les Hommes de l'eau
Directed byErnest Genval [fr]
Edited byErnest Genval
Release date
  • 1938 (1938)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryBelgium

Avec les Hommes de l'eau is a Belgian 1938 short documentary film.

Synopsis

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The Berwinne sails off Leopoldville (now known as Kinshasa) up the Congo River. Along the way, it stops at a small village to take on board a plentiful supply of slow-burning wood. Once loaded, the boat sails away, leaving a mesmerised local population behind on the shore. Along the route, the boat encounters canoes and "watermen" carrying out typical activities such as fishing, crocodile hunting, carving hippopotamus meat and salting it for preservation.

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