Africa Speaks!
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| Directed by | Walter Futter |
| Produced by | Walter Futter Paul L. Hoefler |
| Written by | Walter Futter |
| Narrated by | Lowell Thomas |
| Cinematography | Paul L. Hoefler |
| Edited by | Walter Futter |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | less than $50,000 |
Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas.
Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa.
Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion. Wildlife footage from the film was later reused in the twelve "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" films.
Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.
Africa Speaks was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on July 7, 2015.
The title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams.
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