Author Archive for: ‘Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos’
Introduction
On 23 March 1918, a new South African feature film was screened in public for the first time at Cape Town’s City Hall. A seven-reel melodrama involving a stolen diamond, a native uprising, and a frontier romance, The Rose of Rhodesia had been directed by Harold M. Shaw and shot at a Sea Point studio in Cape Town and on location in …
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