Films for the Colonies by Rice Tom;

Author:Rice, Tom;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520300385
Publisher: University of California Press

“HOW TO MAKE FILMS THE ENGLISHMAN’S WAY”: PRODUCING FILMMAKERS AT THE CFU’S TRAINING SCHOOLS

The demise of the home unit coincided with the emergence of local film units, which were direct products of the CFU’s training schools (see Figure 4.7). On Monday 13 September 1948, six African trainees began their first day at the CFU’s inaugural training school in Accra. The trainees comprised three men from the Gold Coast (Sam Aryeetey, R. O. Fenuku, and Bob Okanta) and three from Nigeria (Alex Fajemisin, J. A. Otigba, and Malam Yakuba Auna) who would then form the nucleus of their local government film units. The school trained these filmmakers in the CFU’s “well tried methods of approach and technique,” with the two main instructors: Ron Harris, who had been at Kodak for twenty years (where Sellers had trained while on leave in the 1930s), working on the technical training, and the CFU’s Gareth Evans overseeing the “creative side of film production.”105 Trinidadian-born cinematographer Franklyn St. Juste, describing the second training school in Jamaica, argued that the trainees were taught “how to make films the Englishman’s way.”106

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