Crocodiles Join Mixed Bathing (1962)

Title reads: “Crocodiles join mixed bathing“. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Europeans risk death to avoid swimming with coloured people. L/S Victoria Falls. L/S town of Livingstone. Various shots municipal outdoor swimming pool: black and Asian children splash about, but no white children. Narrator explains town council recently abolished segregation in swimming baths. M/S small white boy standing on the banks of the Zambes, a notice which reads “Bathing Is Suicidal Because of Crocodiles“. C/U notice. M/S crocodiles sliding into the water. Various shots white families splashing about in river. Note: newspaper articles on file. FILM ID:1709.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news ag