Vreni Hockenjos – Screening the Past

Featured Attractions: The Rose of Rhodesia and Silent Cinema

Post author: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)

Abstract This essay aims to give a more general introduction to the film-historical context surrounding The Rose of Rhodesia (1918). What was it like to make films in the late 1910s? What…