Shot by an unknown American adventurer, this silent, color home movie of various elephant and animal hunts in an undisclosed location in Africa. It likely dates to the late 1930s or early 1940s. It features white hunters in uniform and locals working together in the plains. Disclaimer: includes graphic depictions of blood, deceased animals, and animal hunting.

(0:08) Opening shot of a plain with an elephant in the distance (1:05) Hunters surround a fallen elephant and hold its ears and tusk to demonstrate its size (1:24) A hunter moves an elephant’s trunk and its ears (1:56) A hunter sits on the ground as the fallen elephant’s tusk surround him (2:08) Close-up of the fallen elephant (2:30) A local man stands in front of the elephant as another hunter talks to him and pats him on the shoulder (2:40) Close up of the elephant’s tusk (3:02) Close-up of the elephant’s bloodied tusk area as the hunters skin the animal (3:31) Wide shot of the plain with birds gathered in a field (3:40) Close-up of a man as he begins skinning the elephant. The camera the pans across its body (4:03) A uniformed hunter sitting down holds a deceased gazelle by its horns (4:23) Close-up of the gazelle’s head (4:43) Two people rowing a canoe in the distance as a uniformed hunter looks through binoculars (5:06) Close-up shots of the ground as a man compares the size of elephant tracks using his binoculars and a small case (5:31) Two local men row a canoe as two uniformed hunters sit (5:59) A uniformed hunter sits and poses with two removed elephant tusks (6:58) Three uniformed hunters standing behind a fallen elephant (7:25) The three hunters sit on the ground between the deceased elephant’s legs (7:58) Medium wide shots of the elephant with close-ups of its feet, body, face, and rear (8:84) The locals and uniformed hunters begin to skin and harvest from the elephant’s front region (9:40) A local man sits with a dissected elephant foot (9:50) The men begin to take apart the tusks from the front region (10:37) Two local men pose with the removed tusk as they remove it. They then chisel off the remaining carcass from the tusk (11:30) A local man sits and carves away at the tusk, removes the inner tissue, and stuffs the hollowed tusk with grass. Another man holds the inner tissue (12:11) Hunters and locals surround another fallen elephant. The camera pans across its body (12:49) A man stooped down between the elephant’s legs as he skins it 12:59) POV shot from the front of a moving vehicle as it drives through trees in the plain (13:14) A crocodile with eggs is caught by a rope.

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