¹ For a complete list of films produced by the Bantu Experiment, as well as its rationale and the places where the films were made and displayed see the final report of the project, published under the title: Notcutt, L.A. and Latham, G.C., The African and the Cinema: An Account of the Work of the Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment During the Period March 1935 to May 1937 (with a foreword by Davis, J. Merle) (1937)Google Scholar.

² International Missionary Council: Production and Circulation of Educational Films for Natives of South, Central and East Africa (1937/1938), CO 323/1421/11 (1937).

³ Ibid.

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¹⁰ Since its beginnings, cinema accompanied the operations of the British Empire. See on the early use of films in colonial administration and the expansion of the British Empire, Christie, I., ‘“The captains and the kings depart”: Imperial Departure and Arrival in Early Cinema’, in Grieveson, L. and MacCabe, C. (eds.), Empire and Film (2011), 21CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See on the role of the Bantu Experiment in the development of instructional cinema in Africa: Shaka, F. Okiremuete, ‘Instructional Cinema in Colonial Africa: An Historical Reappraisal’, (1999) 27 (1/3) Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 27Google Scholar; G. Reynolds, Colonial Cinema in Africa: Origins, Images, Audiences (2015), 171–96. See generally on colonial cinematography in African as an ‘instrument of modernization’: Smyth, R., ‘Film as Instrument of Modernization and Social Change in Africa: The Long View’, in Bloom, P.J, Miescher, S.F and Manuh, T. (eds.), Modernization as Spectacle in Africa (2014), 65Google Scholar.

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¹³ P. Goodrich, ‘Screening Law’, (2009) 21(1) Law & Literature 1.

¹⁴ Twining to Gorrell Barnes, 12 November 1956 CO 822/912, BDEEP – Conservative Government 1951–1957, Part II, 272, cited in Louis, W.M. Roger and Robinson, Ronald, ‘The Imperialism of Decolonization’, (1994) 22 (3) The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 462CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 508.

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¹⁶ The literature on these topics is vast but see, for example, on the League of Nations, the Mandates System and the question of ‘self-rule’: S. Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (2015), 1–16, 45–76; on the emergence of colonial subjects as political and economic actors: F. Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996), 1–56; on Europe, America and the reorganization of the colonial project at the beginning of the twentieth century E. Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2009), 3–54; on the ‘internationalization’ of global relations: D. Gorman, The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s (2014), 1–18; and on the financial cost of imperial administration, M. Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (2009), 1–65.

¹⁷ J. Merle Davis, ‘Foreword’, in Notcutt and Latham, supra note 1, at 13.

¹⁸ See on the use of the metaphor of consciousness in the inter-war period, Anghie, supra note 5, at 133–4.

¹⁹ Reynolds, supra note 10, 174. See on the intense conversations and different positions at this time on the value of ‘native’ cultures and the role and function of anthropology in the colonial project, James, W., ‘The Anthropologist as Reluctant Imperialist’, in Asad, T., Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter (1973), 41Google Scholar.

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³⁸ Ibid., Lugard is citing here Sir C. Lucas.

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⁴⁴ Grieveson, supra note 4, at 73. See also James, supra note 19.

⁴⁵ See especially B. Malinowsky, ‘Practical Anthropology’, (1929) 2(1) Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 22. See on the context that surrounded Malinowsky's proposals and their similarities to, and some important differences from, Lugard and the broader anthropological and colonial administrative community, Foks, supra note 4.

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⁵³ See especially the review of African Peasant Farms by T. Rice (2008) included in the project: Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, available at www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/230.

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