Spears Issue Title Is Points And Pints (1944)

Part of POINTS AND PINTS issue. South Africa. A factory that makes heads for golf clubs helps war effort by making spears. Various shots of the spears being made. The manager / foreman is white, all the workers are black. Various shots of black South African soldiers marching around parade ground carrying spears instead of guns. Cataloguers’ note: racist comment in commentary - carrying the spears “comes almost naturally“ to black soldiers. FILM ID: 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 agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the