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Matamata and Pilipili [videorecording] / a film by Tristan Bourlard

Published
New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Additional Creators
Bourlard, Tristan and First Run/Icarus Films

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Language Note
French dialogue with English subtitles.
Summary
In the 1950s, Belgian missionary and film fanatic Albert Van Haelst made some twenty films known as the Matamata and Pilipila series; these comic heroes -- Haelst's would-be African answer to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy -- became the delight of Congolese moviegoers before the films vanished at the close of the Congo's colonial period. Haelst's original negatives were found in Belgian archives, and here, nearly half a century after they were first shown, they are presented again. The program explains what happened to Haelst and his two Congolese stars and documents an important episode in Congolese popular culture, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.
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