James Burns – Screening the Past

Cape Town Bioscope Culture and The Rose of Rhodesia

Post author:James Burns
Post published:January 4, 2015
Post category:Issue 25 - Special Issue: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen: Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia (1918)

Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia may have premiered in Africa, but its audiences were neither primitive nor parochial. When the film opened in Cape Town on 23 March 1918, cinema had…