Title:ETHIOPIA. SIDELIGHTS ON THE CAMPAIGN OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE THROUGH GOJJAM TO ADDIS ABABA [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 6423
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY MAJOR EDWIN CHAPMAN-ANDREWS [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film by Major Edwin Chapman-Andrews, with full descriptive titles, shot while based on the staff of the C-in-C Middle East as Liaison Officer with Emperor Haile Selassie .
Description: Film covers the campaign by static recording of succession of scenes: military training of Ethiopian and Eritrean volunteers in the Sudan, main figures in entourage of Emperor (Chapman-Andrews himself, Wilfred Thesiger of the Sudan Defence Force, Chief Political Adviser to the Emperor Colonel Daniel Sandford, Major Ronald Critchley accompanying Haile Selassie's two sons the Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen and Prince Makonnen Duke of Harar, Colonel Wingate as Military Commander of Gideon Force, Major Donald Nott), Ethiopian troops at various locations (Soba near Khartoum, Um Idla, Abu Wendi, Belaia, Affidavit Camp on Dinder River, Belaia, Waterfall Camp at Engia Barra, Dejajmach Mengesha, Burie, Dejajmach Negash, Jigga, Dembecha, Debra Marcos, Adjebar, Addis Ababa), Ethiopian tribal leaders with their warriors (headman of Gumz people, Ras Hailu, Ras Seyum), defeat and capture of Italian forces (ambushed armoured cars of Burie Garrison, Italian prisoners of war, surrender of Jimma to General Foulkes, surrender by General Bertello at Beletta, lowering of Italian flag and raising of Ethiopian flag). "And so, by midsummer of 1941, Ethiopia regains its rightful independence."
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY MAJOR EDWIN CHAPMAN-ANDREWS [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 6423
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1941
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Chapman-Andrews, Edwin (Production individual)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 3
Footage: 1089 ft; Running time: 46 mins (16 fps)
