1908 Touareg (North African) Stick Fencing & Wrestling

Film Date 1908 Location: North Africa Or Europe ?** Includes a slow motion take of the film. The above footage is extracted from the film below: Film Title: “The Touaregs in their country” - Chez les Touaregs / Touraregs in their country. Summary: Scenes of a Touareg village show the tribe’s women, boys posing and fighting, two men fighting with sticks and wrestling, the tying of a turban, equipping and mounting the camels, the parade of a caravan, demonstrating an assault on a colonial courier, a “Fantasia“ parade, horsemen riding toward the camera with their guns blazing, and a mother and child playing with a kitten. Pathé frères (France) Pathé Frères (U.S.) Created / Published United States : Pathé Frères, 1908. ** “Wondrous Difference Cinema, Anthropology and Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture” In the book listed above, the author suggests that the film was shot in Europe and the village setup was part of a living ex