TRUE ADVENTURE TV EPISODE “ PYGMIES OF ITURI “ MBUTI PEOPLE / BAMBUTI CONGO RAINFOREST XD14374

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color educational film is an episode of the ’True Adventure’ TV show features a visit with an African pygmy tribe of the Ituri region of the Belgian Congo, the Mbuti people, or Bambuti. These are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa who speak Central Sudanic and Bantu. The “pygmy tribes“ are actually group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle. This episode dates to the early 1960s and was shot by a Danish filmmaker whose name we’re not 100% certain of -- her name sounds like Elsbeth Jolvie but a search has not yielded any information about her. Opening titles: Bill Burrud presents True Adventure (:07). Bill Burrud speaks and introduces the episode (:37). Africa; Congolese people (1:02). Eye of a chameleon (1:17). Bill Burrud speaks (1:33). The Ituri Rainfor