Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos

Introduction

Post author:Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos
Post published:January 4, 2015
Post category:Issue 25 - Special Issue: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen: Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia (1918)

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,…