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Films
2 Films
with a digital version available
x
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Directors
“Speed, Frank”
x
Series
“0”
x
Country of production
“Nigeria”
x
Year of production
“1963”
x
films with a digital version
2
x
short films
2
x
Region
West Africa
2
Country
Nigeria
2
Keywords
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Possession
1
Ritual
2
Directors
Bradbury, Ray
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Speed, Frank
2
x
Series
not set
2
x
Country of production
Nigeria
2
x
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Year of production
1963
2
x
Film list
Benin Kingship Rituals
1963
20
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Ray Bradbury
.
Until it was conquered by the British in 1897, the city of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was the centre of a powerful kingdom. Its rulers, the Obas of Benin, were mysterious, secluded figures who
West Africa
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
History
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession