Africa Speaks!/Goona Goona Combo (Classic Pictures, R-1950s). Lobby Card Set

Description

Film Description: the circa 1940s double-bill release ("2 All-Time Great Thrills Films! In one super spectacle!"; "The Afro-Goona Show"; "Wild - Weird - Wondrous") of Kriss (also released as "Goona Goona"), the 1932 Armand Denis and Andre Roosevelt French/U.S. Polynesian documentary. Note that Armand Denis had explored Africa and India in the 1930s with his wife Leila Roosevelt, and had produced and directed many short subjects with footage of their travels that he and his wife had shot themselves. In 1948, the 52 year-old Armand Denis divorced Roosevelt, and married 34 year-old Michaela Holdsworth, and together they made four movies (very similar to those he had made with his first wife) AND Africa Speaks, the 1930 Walter Futter jungle safari wild animal documentary ("The strangest romance ever filmed!"; "Thrilling adventure in the unexplored regions of Equatorial Africa"; "Produced by the Colorado African Expedition, Inc.") starring Paul Hoefler (who was the man who went to Africa, and who wrote a book of the same name about his experiences) and narrated by Lowell Thomas.