1990-1999AFRICA
Hunger crisis in Biafra. Scenes of the hungry people and children. Food distribution.
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Hundreds of Africans, mostly children, gathered in the streets in Biafra. Shots of mostly children and women sitting in doorways and on the ground, they look toward the camera.
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A very thin African mother, sitting on the ground holding her small naked and pathetically thin boy child. He stands - crying.
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Another naked young boy maybe 5-6 years old and pathetically emaciated stands next to a parent.
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| 01:03:39 219.69 |
Two emaciated women with their hungry children standing leaning against a building looking pathetically forlorn and hungry.
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People in an African village stirring large containers of food or liquid in pots over fires with long sticks. Lots of people gathered around.
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CU An older African man with a white beard and head cap, fully dressed with a scarf around his neck. He stands amidst several people, a lot of children, in a crowd. CU a child with a blue scarf wrapped around her head and covering most of her face.
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A crowd of Africans, mostly women holding their babies, standing close together. Z'in on a mom holding her baby close to her and wearing a brightly colored wrapped head scarf. She slowly walks toward camera.
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CU an African mother with her baby wrapped in a sling (a "Kanga") tied tightly around her body. She stands amidst a crowd with another mother standing very close to her. CU on this mother same as above, with an object dangling from her mouth - she walks toward the camera for ECU.
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| 01:06:06 366.82 |
CU on a crowd of young African children. CU on a little boy standing close to the camera, he wears a beaded necklace with charms, his skinny arms and ribcage expose his hunger.
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A mother holds her tiny sleeping baby close to her. She wears a full white head scarf wrapped around her head and neck and baby is engulfed in a sling around her body.
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Various shots of groups of African people, alot of youngsters in a village. Mothers with their children looking hungry.
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Various shaped cans, some baskets, gathered together on the ground. An African man dressed in camouflage shirt and pants seems to be gathering the cans together, some cans appear to have food, maybe rice in them.
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An African woman huddled against a wall.
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A child sitting alone on the dusty rocky ground and eating some food out of a bowl that rests in his lap, most likely rice.
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People sitting atop a stone wall looking down on the men below arrange dozens of various tin cans and buckets filled with rice ready to hand out to the hungry people. The men are seen spooning the rice out of large cans and filling it into the smaller cans.
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CU on a large crowd of hungry African people and children waiting to receive their portion of food.
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| 01:11:51 711.57 |
Shots of forlorn looking children, no shoes, standing around on the dirt ground. A little girl looks into the camera, a small boy sits on the ground next to her, a little skinny girl wearing a dress stands behind the boy.
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A huge line of hundreds of people with their children stand in line for food.
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A woman with her boy stands holding her small bucket as the rice is spooned in for her by a worker.
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Various shots of food distribution to the hungry African people. Relief workers spoon out the rice individually into the small tins, buckets and bags of the people.
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| 01:14:09 849.87 |
Shots of the people sitting on the ground, mothers holding their babies, so many children, all waiting for a bit of rice.
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A desparate looking man or woman, sitting cross legged and huddled on the dirt ground alone, wrapped in fabric, skinny arms is all that is seen of his body.
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A group of small children sitting huddled together, wrapped in yellow fabric, eating from their food bucket, they share their food with a tiny little child who picks the food from the bucket with his hand.
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Inside a make shift hospital or emergency clinic. Rows and rows of cots filled with sick and injured people and children. A doctor tends to a patient. A person whose legs and arms are wrapped in white gauze or casts sits on a cot. A mother fans her child who has a bandage wrapped around its waist. People connected to IV drips.
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Various shots around the clinic, cots pushed close together with sick and injured children including a baby with gauze wrapped around its head, a man with his legs in casts fanning himself, another guy with his leg elevated, and many more sick children and babies.
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| 01:24:20 1460.5 |
Ext, shots tents in the vast barren desert, military vehicles in the sand , people walking around, pile of empty barrels.
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Pan a row of dump trucks lined up and parked on the sand, people milling about, tents in the bkgd., and shots of the coastline.
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WS of two large barges out in the sea, hopefully bringing supplies. Z'in on one of the barges and it appears to be loaded up with people sitting atop dozens of crates. Men carrying a long rope from the shore appear to be pulling the barge in to shore.
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