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journey with a camera
LAST SEPTEMBER TWO BRITISH FILM - MAKERS VISITED NIASSA PROVINCE
WHERE THEY SHOT A FILM ABOUT THE DAILY LIFE AMONG THE PEOPLE:
THEY WERE SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM IN MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA AND GUINEA. MARGARET DICKINSON,WHO WENT ON THE
ASSIGNMENT WITH JOHN FLETCHER, TELLS ABOUT HER IMPRESSIONS:
Plans for the film first began to take shape around the end
of 1969. Our main idea then was that although several
books and articles published over the past two years have
helped make people in the West aware that there is a war
in Mozambique, ideas about it were still very hazy. Even
moderately well informed people ask questions ranging from:
«Why can't thc Mozambicans negotiate their independence
peacefully? » to «Why doesn't FRELIMO organise an uprising in Lourenco Marques and get on with it? » We hoped
that being more vivid, a film might help to clear such confusions and generate a more realistic understanding of the
struggle. Since then events have made this need for information more critical. The first is the change of government
in England. For although Britain has always supported
Portugal and indirectly contributed to her war effort, thc
new so-called 'defence policy', including the decision to
sell arms to South Africa , marks a new phase of more direct
18
involvement in South Africa on the side of the white fascist
powers. It is essential now to expose the propaganda
with which this policy is clothed and to show who, in
reality, the South, Africans will turn those weapons against.
The second is Kaulza de Arriaga's great offensive and the
coverage given to it by the western press. Throughout
the summer the major papers have carried reports drawn
from Portuguese sources, announcing the final defeat of
FRELIMO. After some months, it is true, these reports
had begun to defeat their own objectives: if FRELIMO
had been wiped out in June, how could they be wiped
out again in August9 But for casual readers the general
impression remained that the tide of the war had turned
against FRELIMO. To counter this an up to date repor; was
needed.
No one lives near the border at the point where wc entered
Object Description
| Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 45 (1970 Oct.-Dec.) |
| Description | Contents: Editorial: The coming victory (p. 1); Invasion of Guinea: The lesson for Africa (p. 3); War communique: Big offensive defeated (p. 6); Portuguese atrocities in Mozambique: Hears the evidence (p. 8); Cahora Bassa: Why we say no (p.13); The struggle in Niassa province by Niassa's military commander (p.15); Journey with a camera: British film-makers in Mozambique (p.18); Once they came with sweets and gifts: Portuguese psychological warfare (p. 20); Streamlined exploitation: Caetano calls it 'autonomy' (p. 23). |
| Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
| Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
| Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
| Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273465 |
| Coverage date | 1961/1970-11 |
| Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
| Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
| Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
| Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Date issued | 1970-10/1970-12 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 28 p. |
| Format (aat) | newsletters |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
| Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
| Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
| Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
| Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
| Filename | CENPA-344 |
Description
| Title | CENPA-344~20 |
| Filename | CENPA-344~20.tiff |
| Full text | .>- journey with a camera LAST SEPTEMBER TWO BRITISH FILM - MAKERS VISITED NIASSA PROVINCE WHERE THEY SHOT A FILM ABOUT THE DAILY LIFE AMONG THE PEOPLE: THEY WERE SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM IN MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA AND GUINEA. MARGARET DICKINSON,WHO WENT ON THE ASSIGNMENT WITH JOHN FLETCHER, TELLS ABOUT HER IMPRESSIONS: Plans for the film first began to take shape around the end of 1969. Our main idea then was that although several books and articles published over the past two years have helped make people in the West aware that there is a war in Mozambique, ideas about it were still very hazy. Even moderately well informed people ask questions ranging from: «Why can't thc Mozambicans negotiate their independence peacefully? » to «Why doesn't FRELIMO organise an uprising in Lourenco Marques and get on with it? » We hoped that being more vivid, a film might help to clear such confusions and generate a more realistic understanding of the struggle. Since then events have made this need for information more critical. The first is the change of government in England. For although Britain has always supported Portugal and indirectly contributed to her war effort, thc new so-called 'defence policy', including the decision to sell arms to South Africa , marks a new phase of more direct 18 involvement in South Africa on the side of the white fascist powers. It is essential now to expose the propaganda with which this policy is clothed and to show who, in reality, the South, Africans will turn those weapons against. The second is Kaulza de Arriaga's great offensive and the coverage given to it by the western press. Throughout the summer the major papers have carried reports drawn from Portuguese sources, announcing the final defeat of FRELIMO. After some months, it is true, these reports had begun to defeat their own objectives: if FRELIMO had been wiped out in June, how could they be wiped out again in August9 But for casual readers the general impression remained that the tide of the war had turned against FRELIMO. To counter this an up to date repor; was needed. No one lives near the border at the point where wc entered |
| Archival file | Volume21/CENPA-344~20.tiff |
