Silent Film ROSE OF RHODESIA (1918) online

Elif · Post by **Elif** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:01 am

Dear friends,
please find below the link to the academic website where you can see the entire film (81 minutes) and read everything about it.
Please allow me also to announce that ROSE OF RHODESIA will be screened at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in october 2009.
Elif

AFRICAN FILM TREASURE GOES ONLINE
The Rose of Rhodesia (1918), one of the earliest feature films made in South Africa, goes online today at the website of Australian film journal Screening the Past.

A five-reel romance centred on a stolen diamond, an interracial friendship, and an anti-colonial uprising, The Rose of Rhodesia impressed contemporary reviewers with its daring realism, spectacular outdoor locations, and casting of African actors in prominent roles. Considered lost for most of the last century, the film may claim to be the first fictional treatment of Zimbabwe in cinema.

Now fully restored by the Nederlands Filmmuseum, The Rose of Rhodesia is being streamed together with a new musical soundtrack by acclaimed silent film composer Matti Bye. Accompanying the film is a special issue of Screening the Past, edited by Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos, in which specialists from a range of disciplines offer the first detailed analysis of this remarkable cinematic discovery.

Both film and journal issue are available now at www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast.

boblipton · Post by **boblipton** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:24 am

This link leads to a page at Latrobe that says this is not the 'droid I was looking for. I'll pm Elif and see if he can provide a better link.

Bob

misspickford9 · Post by **misspickford9** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:27 am

boblipton wrote:This link leads to a page at Latrobe that says this is not the 'droid I was looking for. I'll pm Elif and see if he can provide a better link.

Bob

The . did it in:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/

I think this is absolutely wonderful. We need more silents online NOW!

Elif · Post by **Elif** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:03 pm

Thanks for restoring the link Hala. I should be careful about this (.)

35MM · Post by **35MM** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:54 am

I like this site, never knew about it before. They did a very extensive review of "Ford at Fox". Here is a link to the silents, but there are two more parts to read on the sound films:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthep ... t-fox.html

urbanora · Post by **urbanora** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:07 pm

The Rose of Rhodesia is a delightful surprise. Skilfully constructed under difficult conditions (i.e. very little money), and hearteningly progressive in its view of the African people and African-white relations. Well worth 81 minutes of anyone's time.