Have You Seen Drum Recently? (1989)
- Directed by
- Jürgen Schadeberg
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- South Africa
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary uses photographs from the Drum magazine archive to tell the story of South Africa in the 1950s. It shows the lives of black South Africans under apartheid through music, politics, and daily life.
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What happens
Have You Seen Drum Recently? is a 1989 film which uses photographs from the Drum archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its contribution to the cultural and political life of South Africa. In the 1950s, Drum focused on urban blacks living in a white-dominated apartheid world. It contained articles about the township jazz scene, crime, fiction and sport and documented the hopes, aspirations and despair of the urban, educated black sophisticate. Directed by Jürgen Schadeberg, the film includes such images as Oliver Tambo as a lawyer, Trevor Huddleston demonstrating against the demolition of Sophiatown, Nelson Mandela sparring in the boxing ring, Chief Luthuli the Nobel Prize winner and the singer Miriam Makeba. The background music is based on the music of the 1950s, including big band, jazz, swing, kwela and penny whistle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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