A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization

A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization was a UK film released in 1912, directed and written by Cherry Kearton. Shot on 35mm film in silent black and white, it was distributed by WTC.

A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
Directed byCherry Kearton
Written byCherry Kearton
Distributed byWTC
Release date
  • 1912 (1912)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Languagessilent film
English intertitles

The film was produced in 1911 by the Ethnographic Society of London, who had previously commissioned Kearton to film a traditional Kenyan dance performed to honour Theodore Roosevelt when he visited the country in 1909.[1]

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  1. ^ Gupta, Dhruba (1994). African Cinema: A View from India. Celluloid Chapter. p. 17.

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