The film describes the 300-mile-long journey during the period January - October, conducted by the 1921 Swedish Zoological Expedition to Central Africa..
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To witness Med prins Wilhelm på afrikanska jaktstigar is to engage with a flickering ghost of European expansionism, a time when the camera was as much a tool of conquest as the rifle. While the year 1921 saw the release of whimsical distractions like The Scarecrow, the Swedish Zoological Expedition was engaged in a...
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" To witness Med prins Wilhelm på afrikanska jaktstigar is to engage with a flickering ghost of European expansionism, a time when the camera was as much a tool of conquest as the rifle. While the year 1921 saw the release of whimsical distractions like The Scarecrow, the Swedish Zoological Expedition was engaged in a far more visceral, albeit problematic, endeavor. This wasn't the choreographed slapstick of Keaton; it was the raw, unvarnished documentation of a 300-mile journey through the hea..."
