West African Shots (1973)

West Africa. VS African women with their young children and babies queue up outside medical centre awaiting treatment. Various close ups of women and children’s faces, the women wear colourful dresses and head scarves. The women sit in silence, none of them smile. Each has a child on her lap. MS men carry sacks on their heads, with ’cereals for China’ on them, to a truck. E/C Neg. 180ft. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé websi