Word: beaunit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moviemaker Rogosin, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer (Beaunit Mills), made Come Back, Africa (the title is a translation of an African National Congress slogan) mostly at his own expense, and the film altogether cost close to $70,000. He entered South Africa as a tourist, lived there for almost a year before he felt ready to roll his cameras. In April 1958 he applied for government permission to make "a musical travelogue." After two months of palaver with six suspicious federal bureaus, Rogosin got his permit. He dashed off his script in less than a week, then shot...
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