Duluth banker brings home “what probably are the first amateur motion pictures in color of native and animal life in Africa”

An interesting item from the New York Times, July 07, 1937:

Amateur films jungle in colors: Duluth banker sails today from Paris with rare movies of natives and animals

Laurence O. Anderson of the Northern National Bank of Duluth, Minn., after a month’s holiday in the Belgian Congo, will sail for the United States tomorrow on the Normandle with what probably are the first amateur motion pictures in color of native and animal life in Africa.


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