Cinema as Foreign Exchange (1984)
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Original Title: Cinema as Foreign Exchange
Release Date: June 06, 1984
Runtime: 61 minutes
Budget: $0.0
Revenue: $0.0
Overview
This documentary shows how cinema has been used very differently in three neighbouring African countries with different colonial heritages: Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar. Mozambique used cinema newsreels as a crucial propaganda tool after the Portugese colonisers left. Madagascar boycotted US movies, so its screens were dominated by French, Indian and Hong Kong films instead. But a few films managed to get made. The situation in Zimbabwe was the worst, except that alone of the three countries it possessed an efficient film laboratory.
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