The Forbidden Desert of the Danakil - David Niven (narrator) (1973)
Subject
Nonfiction films
Anthology films
Drama
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Description
Content description from BFI (https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6d8066cf):
Retraces the journey made in 1934 by explorer Wilfred Thesiger tracing the course of the previously uncharted Awash River in the Danakil desert of Ethiopia and looks at the life of the Danakil people. Wilfred Thesiger recollects his own experiences. First transmitted in 1973.
Ephemera: none available.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape