1908 Touareg ( North African) Stick Fencing Wrestling

Film Date 1908 Location: North Africa Or Europe Includes a slow motion take of the film. The above footage is extracted from the film below: Film Title: The Touaregs in their country Chez les Touaregs, Touraregs in their country. Summary: Scenes of a Touareg village show the tribe s women, boys posing and fighting, two men fighting with sticks and wrestling, the tying of a turban, equipping and mounting the camels, the parade of a caravan, demonstrating an assault on a colonial courier, a Fantasia parade, horsemen riding toward the camera with their guns blazing, and a mother and child playing with a kitten. Pathé frères (France) Pathé Frères Created, Published United States : Pathé Frères, 1908. Wondrous Difference Cinema, Anthropology and Turnofthecentury Visual Culture In the book listed above, the author suggests that the film was shot in Europe and the village setup was part of a living ex