Film Information

Title: ROSE OF RHODESIA, THE (Die Rose von Rhodesia)
Director: Harold Shaw
Production Date: 1918
Length: 5 reels (81 minutes)
Format: 35mm, black and white, silent, full (silent) aperture
Speed: 16 frames/second
Language: German intertitles
Production Company: Harold Shaw Film Productions Ltd.
Country: South Africa
Screenplay: Harold Shaw
Photography: Henry Howse, Ernest G. Palmer
Actors: Edna Flugrath Rose Randall
Marmaduke A. Wetherel Jack Morel
Chief Kentani Chief Ushakapilla
Prince Yumi Mofti, his son
Howard Wyndham Bob Randall
or Fred Winters

Premiere in South Africa: 23 March 1918, Cape Town (7 reels)
Premiere in Great Britain: 28 October 1919, London
Music composed and performed by: Matti Bye & Kristian Holmgren
Preserved by: Nederlands Filmmuseum
Elif Rongen-Kaynakci
Mark-Paul Meyer
Emjay Rechsteiner
Anne Gant

Laboratory: Haghefilm Conservation
Encoding and Streaming: Thought Equity Motion
Supported by: The Swedish Research Council
The Lars Hiertas Memorial Foundation
Images for the Future

Translation into English: Vreni Hockenjos, Stephen Donovan
Created on: Sunday, 30 August 2009