Aimed at Black people, this film is an indication of the way its authors saw the intended audience. lies in the patronising metaphors used. The film is pregnant with fear of the arrival of Blacks in urban areas. The fantasy which informs the film soon reveals itself overtly: ‘Sometimes it may not even be necessary
‘From the throbbing of virile cities’ to ‘relics of a bygone and leisurely age’ – with such phrases, Remnants of a Stone Age People invited audiences of the 1960s to journey from Johannesburg to the Kalahari to view the producers’ ultimate Other: the Bushmen. More curious and bizarre than the hunter-gatherers’ images are the ideological
Born in Boksburg in 1921, Jacobus Johannes ‘Jamie’ Uys became an internationally acclaimed director with 24 films to his credit. His features and documentaries included Funny People, Animals are Beautiful People and, of course, The Gods Must Be Crazy. He died in Johannesburg in 1996. This mini-drama was produced by the Apartheid State. Narrated in