In 1913 Meg Gehrts sailed from London to Lomé with Hans Schomburgk’s expedition to film dramas of African life on location in German Togoland. She describes playing the white woman in The White Goddess of the Wangora, life at the station of Kamina, the long treks inland, and the villages, people and animals they met.
A rare record of early location filmmaking; its colonial attitudes are those of its day. Download the free EPUB.