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Baobab
Productions Inc. shoots around the world in DV digital format.
We have aquired an extensive library of footage. Most of the scenes in
our library are rural, showing people at their daily work, though we do
have some urban footage. We currently have material from the following
countries (listed alphabetically).
Bangladesh
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Dhaka
streets with rickshaws, traffic, trains, rural farm scenes, fish ponds,
fishing, rice planting. Sunset over Ganges river, various pastoral landscapes,
boats on Ganges river.
Burkina Faso*
- village life in a compound near Ouagadougou. Farming - millet harvest
on desert edge. Town scenes in and around Bobo Dioulassou.
Cameroon
- Banana and plantain growing, market
China - Beijing
street scenes, including parks, children, traditional activities (bird
displays); evening activity in Wangfujing district of Beijing (traditional
fast food carts). Tianan Men square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace. Rural
and town scenes from farm regions east of Beijing as well as scenes from
northern China, including saw mills, logging operations and town and people
visuals.
Colombia*
- market scenes, buying and selling of produce, beans, the village square;
Bogota downtown, also considerable footage at the Institute of Immunology
showing biotechnology research; agricultural activities including hillside
bean farming, pesticide spraying and preparation; mountain scenics; cassava
processing, small cheese factory.
Costa Rica
- Banana and plantain processing and packing, markets
Dominican Republic
- Rural scenes in San Juan district, including bean and tomato farms, roadside
vegetable sellers, rural landscapes, pesticide application.
Ecuador*
- mountain scenics from southern Ecuador around Loja, southern Ecuador;
the market in Loja; farmers working bean and other plots; evening in a
village; volcanoes near Ibarra in northern Ecuador; Andes mountain scenics
from northern Ecuador. Scenes of indian village life on mountain top near
Tixan
Ghana - rural
compounds; market in Navrongo, showing cassava, preparation of local food,
sale of live goats and chickens; landscapes; baobab trees, crocodiles.
India - Wholesale
banana market in Trichy, southern India. Banana plantations.
Kenya* - Kenya
coast on the Indian Ocean both north and south of Mombassa; rural compounds
in Kilifi; the Mombassa ferry; Amboseli National Park showing elephants,
hippos, other wildlife and Kilimanjaro; town scenes along the Mombassa-Nairobi
highway, Nairobi National Park including cheetahs, lions, zebras and baboons.
Nguruman escarpment area. Kakamega district, including views of Kakamega
forest; laboratory visuals at ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology
and Ecology). Visuals from farms near Maseno, maize, intercropping etc.
Malawi - Rural
scenes on farms near Lilongwe, ground nuts, pounding, food perparation,
village life. Rural scenes near Zomba - bananas, fish ponds, vegetable
gardens
Mali - Dry season,
landscapes, baobab trees, farms, dust devils, donkey carts carrying forages
and wood.
Mexico - The
great pyramids of the sun and moon at Teotihaucan near Mexico City; rural
scenes near Oaxaca, maize farmers.
Nicaragua
- banana and plantain growing
Peru - Inca
ruins near Cusco; Corpus Christi celebrations in Cusco square; Andes mountain
scenics; villages in Andes.
Rwanda - landscapes
in northern district near Rwewere, Kigali market.
South Africa*
- Johannesburg skylines
Sri Lanka -
shore birds, crocodiles in Bundala National Park, rice farming, land perparation,
irrigation reservoirs, people using water.
Swaziland*
- rural landscapes, wildlife and birds.
Tanzania
- Tengeru Market near Arusha ; landscapes near Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Mount
Meru; banana growing; health scenes, dispensaries, hospitals, malaria,
mosquitoes; town scenes (Ifakara)
Thailand
- Tropical jungle scenes, banana processing co-operative, river markets.
The Philippines*
- villages in central Luzon; milling and dehulling rice for village use,
transplanting rice into flooded fields; street scenes in Los Baños;
the Visayan town of Matalom. Mountain scenes in Northern Luzon (Quirino
province), farms and landscapes in Claveria, Mindanao, remains of tropical
mahogany forest long since logged over. Banana plantations in southern
Mindanao, banana markets and street sellers in Davao and Luzon.
Uganda - Rural
scenes including sweet potato planting and harvest, cassava preparation;
school children; Kampala markets; landscapes around Mount Elgon area; banana
growing and harvesting, making banana beer and liquor;
Zambia* -
Lusaka skylines. Landscapes near Chipata, maize fields, landscapes
Zimbabwe*
- landscapes and rural scenes north-east of Harare. Harare skylines, Shona
stone carvers. Worshippers in Pentecostal church. Sorghum growing - threshing,
milling, landscapes in region near Bulawayo
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