AFRICA FILM PROJECT; SONG AFTER SORROW: THE STORY OF THE BIBANGA LEPER CAMP, A COOPERATIVE PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CONGO MISSION, THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS, AND THE BELGIAN COLONIAL GOVERNMENT Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

Documentary: Illustrates plight of leprosy victims before and after the opening of the Bibanga Leper Camp by missionaries. Reel 1: Show's lepers begging for admission to overcrowded mission hospital; one dies at the gate. After camp opens, lepers arrive for care; ambulatory patients build homes for less fortunate ones; lepers weave, sew, make pottery, etc.; children at school and play. Reel 2: Lepers work on farm, and extract chaulmoogra oil used for treatment, from berries of trees.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups