Black Market Aka African Market (1947)

Titles read: “BLACK MARKET“. South Africa. General view of an African market or ’mai-mai’. A man swishes a knobkerrie about. Another tries on traditional earrings. A man in traditional tribal dress is attended by two Africans in western clothing. A man sits among piles of leaves drying in the sun and pounds tobacco in a pot. An African man buys some of the powder and takes it like snuff, sneezing twice afterwards. The medicine man is consulted by a man with a bandage around his head. He gives the patient some powder from a small container hung around his neck. Shots of the ’chemist’ shop, selling strange-looking ingredients. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the n