AFRICA SPEAKS! (1930) Paul L. Hoefler & Lowell Thomas | Documentary, Adventure | COLORIZED

Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas. It is an exploitation film.

SYNOPSIS
Paul L. Hoefler heads a 1928 expedition to Africa capturing wildlife and tribes on film.

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.

CAST & CREW
Paul L. Hoefler as Himself
Lowell Thomas as Narrator

Directed by Walter Futter
Written by Walter Futter
Produced by Walter Futter, Paul L. Hoefler
Cinematography Paul L. Hoefler
Edited by Walter Futter
Production company Mascot Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date August 15, 1930
Running time 75 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget less than $50,000

NOTES
Although the film was shot over the fourteen months of the expedition in the Serengeti and in Uganda, a scene involving an attack by a lion on a native was apparently staged at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles and involved a toothless lion.

Hoefler wrote a book entitled Africa Speaks about the expedition that was published in 1931.

The title of the film was parodied in the 1940 cartoon Africa Squeaks and the 1949 Abbott and Costello film Africa Screams.