The Kenya Story (1961)
Various shots of flamingos flying over a lake while large flocks stand and walk in the water of Lake Nakuru in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya in Africa. M/S of a car driving away from us along a red dusty road; it slows down to let a line of zebras walk across the road and up a grassy slope. Nice M/S of zebras standing in a field with tails a-swishing.
M/S of Colonel Mervyn Cowie, C.B.E. looking at a map on the bonnet of a land rover with another man. Commentator tells us dedicated men like the Colonel have the task of maintaining these vast territories (of Royal National Parks and National Reserves). One of the men points off camera and looks through his binoculars. Lovely M/S of four rhinoceroses lying down with their heads on their front legs in a dusty field. M/S of the men pointing and discussing; C/U of two of the rhinos with their faces resting on the ground. M/S of a woman filming the animals with a cine camera; a man in khaki safari clothes and a small boy also look out of the window of the land rover.
M/S inside the land rover as we drive along a field where hundreds of birds are standing and walking around; C/U of a group of them; they look a bit like large herons with longer beaks and red heads (I am reliably informed by Big Ron they are Maribou Storks); pan left to show the edge of a lake and a giraffe staring at us. M/S and C/U of more giraffes strolling around and eating. M/S of a rhino walking along and stopping a few yards from a small group of elephants on the Amboseli Reserve. Commentator tells us this view of them eating together is extremely rare.
M/S of a safari land rover travelling along a dirt track road, while a man and woman stand looking out of the top and pointing things out to each other; the man is taking photos with a long lens camera. M/S of the man in khaki driving. M/S of an elephant lolloping towards the camera, being followed by two white birds; he shakes his head and lots of dust flies out from behind his ears making the birds flutter.
The land rover is seen driving over land in the Nairobi national park. M/S of a beautiful lioness walking along; the woman films them with the cine camera again. M/S of the lioness and a (quite old) cub. M/S of a juvenile lion lying down; his mane is half grown.
Commentator says "Kenya is essentially a country of contrasts," as we see an aerial shot of snow-capped Mount Kenya, then M/Ss of a beautiful white sandy beach, with palm fronds in the foreground; then a spindly tree, panning right to show the rugged bush landscape, and a white Volkswagen Beetle in the distance! M/S of some swampy marshland.
C/U of a very high signpost with distances to various cities in the world; most are in Africa; tilt up to show the top of the signpost which has compass points on it and a sign reading 'Nairobi Airport'. M/Ss of the sign before the airport buildings; an East African Airways plane slowing to a halt on the tarmac. M/S of a small crowd of people on the observation platform; C/U of two African women and a young boy; a Caucasian woman stands beside them and a Sikh man with a small girl in his arms is seen behind them. Nice M/S of people coming down the stairway of the plane, taken from beneath the wing.
Fade into L/S of the city of Nairobi, with modern buildings and lots of cars moving along the main road. M/Ss of the traffic moving along the busy city road; a policeman is standing on a small trolley in the centre of the road directing them. We are told that hippos and occasionally the odd lion or leopard stray in from the river valleys. M/Ss of the modern New Stanley Hotel; some people sitting outside at the tables of a cafe; the diners are predominantly white and are served their drinks (seem to be soft drinks, including Coca Cola and Canada Dry) by an African waiter in traditional dress and fez.
M/S and C/U of an African woman weaving a brightly coloured basket while sitting in a garden; some Wakamba men (in western dress) are then seen in the garden, carving elephant and rhino ornaments and traditional masks from wood. C/Us of the figures they have carved; M/Ss of western tourists buying the finished, polished masks from a stall in the street. We see some African men weighing huge ivory elephant tusks on a large scale on the street; a man in a fez watches the scale meter spin round while another makes notes. Commentator talks of this important export industry.
L/S of a cruise liner taken from the land where some exotic plants and blossoms are growing. The ship is coming into Mombasa; the main port to Kenya. We see some tourists coming down a gangplank from the ship and getting into a car; the car drives off from the docks; C/U of an African man in uniform watching. M/S of a town road with a
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My Magical country , thank you for keeping our history in films and now on KZread
@TheGiantKillers
8 ай бұрын
This would have been shown in British cinemas before the main movie back then. Back in those days most Brits still spent their vacation time within 50 miles of where they lived as a local seas side resort, about 30% of wealthier Brits were starting to holiday in continental Europe but only a very small number of the wealthiest or more adventurous could afford to visit Kenya so this was the only way many Brits could see the wider world.
@teachermartin8251
8 ай бұрын
@@TheGiantKillers This is wonderful. I didn't think it was then expensive for Brits to visit Kenya or even settle here.
Kenya is beautiful 😍long live 🇰🇪
KZread is the closest time machine we will ever have.🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪👊🏾
Glad to see that Kenya has been successful in protecting its diverse and rich wildlife to date.
@dannnsss8034
Жыл бұрын
Bro this video is from the 30s
@mwanikimwaniki6801
Жыл бұрын
@@dannnsss8034 haha. That's exactly what he is talking about
@Mackenzie2576
9 ай бұрын
Not so much Tanzania is doing a better job
@petermutisya672
8 ай бұрын
@@mwanikimwaniki6801⁴
@nickng645
2 ай бұрын
@@dannnsss803430s?? You're so wrong, this is the early 60s right before independence
Kenya is gorgeous 😍
Magical Kenya.... Wow.
Imagine MAGICAL KENYA even cannot describe Kenya like this....in 2022.. This was 1961....We need lot of training for our people
Making wonderful videos on foreign land
Amazing to think that the very sight of Africa was only made possible by the invention of the camera.
@mandalaqueen828
2 жыл бұрын
Or you could just visit you know? Lol
@blocksarefun1
Жыл бұрын
@@mandalaqueen828 before the comersial airplanes? Not a chance
U do not have this now😢
Amazing documentary
Kenya beautifl
Kenya 1961 kii ayay sidan ahayd wow!!
Nairobi looked good them days , siku hizi eyyy
The official story is that Kenya and all ex British colonies thrived much better after independence. The truth is the opposite.
@ocayaro
2 ай бұрын
The British robbed them dry. They never left skills.
@michael-bf5do
2 ай бұрын
@@ocayarofor that did my countrie dirty
When the world was normal❤
This is Kenya 63 years ago
Now it's chaotic and dirty
Thank you for keeping the history of our country but our leaders 😢😢😢
❤❤❤254 my country my state
Why have you disabled comments on freedom struggle in this channel?
2:20 They look TAME enough but you're obliged to stay in your car.. 👀
Does any one of you know Landi Mawai?
Colonialism was a blessing to Africa and Kenya
@ryuk3950
Жыл бұрын
you're mad.
@SVHGh
11 ай бұрын
@@ryuk3950 but where is the lie?
@Novikedocumentary
3 ай бұрын
@@SVHGhit's a lie you evil human
@Novikedocumentary
3 ай бұрын
Shut up monster
@nickng645
2 ай бұрын
@@ryuk3950he's right, it was both a blessing and a curse.
Shame kenya isnt like what it use to be
Today's Nairobi is a pity..So disorderly, dirty,noisy, Politics have destroyed this beauty recorded 60 years ago😢😢😢😢😢
Our fight for independence was premature, it ruined the original Kenya. I wish I was alive during this time
@mwanikimwaniki6801
Жыл бұрын
@Can't mossad the Assad Yeah sure. A totally illiterate population living in diseased and overcrowded concentration camps was definitely better?
@themadfarmer5207
Жыл бұрын
Mm. There were some advantages to having a white presence in the likes of Kenya. I shy away from using white rule or colonial rule. Whites brought a degree of industry, mechanisation, farming experience, employment, housing marketing and quiet a lot of other advantages. Native population wanted to have the colonial presence eliminated, and return to playing drums and dancing. Trouble is ,,, singing, dancing, and playing drums doesn't put food on the table nor clothes on the back. Goodbye
@mwanikimwaniki6801
Жыл бұрын
@@themadfarmer5207 Haha. Here comes the close minded one who skipped over the concentration camps, torture, dispossession of land, mass rape, starvation and all other crimes. Your foolish grandfather together with you just wanted to dance!? Others had serious grievances. What industries did the whites leave here? All your points are garbage.
@futbolchamps
Жыл бұрын
@the mad farmer But they were not starving
@leonshamalla05
Жыл бұрын
@@themadfarmer5207 So everything they „brought“ to us is worth millions of lives being killed by idiots??? In kenya we had a functioning economy, of course it didn’t look like Europe but it didn’t need to, Europeans were always trying to spread their „culture“ and it wasn’t on favor of the Africans, rather the Europeans could live in the african land
Keenya the way he says it
Glad this guruwes left
3:14 those 1960 Kenyans don't look happy.. 😂
@Yv1o5
Жыл бұрын
Of course. Don’t you realize what they went through? Many of them lost their loved ones, their land in the hands of the colonizers.
Wh3n white people like kings