The film produced by the French Film Chamber shows Zuaven,...
The film produced by the French Film Chamber shows Zuaven, an infantry unit of North African colonial soldiers, in Flanders, Belgium. In addition to...
The film produced by the French Film Chamber shows Zuaven, an infantry unit of North African colonial soldiers, in Flanders, Belgium. In addition to a parade, there are various recreational activities of the soldiers, which were allegedly taken one kilometer behind the front: front theater, exuberant games, boxing fights and a wrestling, staged as a symbolic fight between a white conqueror and an African colonized.
“Zouaves d 'Afrique dans les Flandres Belges” was distributed in 28mm format, which Pathé Frères introduced in France in 1912 and also marketed internationally. Unlike the standard format of the 35mm film on nitrate cellulose, the 28mm film was difficult to flame, so that such “safety films” could be shown without fire protection measures, for example in the home theater sector. Shortly after the end of the war, Pathé Frères stopped marketing the 28mm film in favor of other formats for security films; it was probably not on the market in Germany because of the First World War. The digitized version is the English version of the film.
The film produced by the French Film Chamber shows Zuaven, an infantry unit of North African colonial soldiers, in Flanders, Belgium. In addition to...