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...films reviewed by the Legion of Decency, said Bishop Ready, 164 were A-1 (morally unobjectionable for general patronage); 141 were A-2 (morally unobjectionable for adults); 64 were B (morally objectionable in part). Only one a documentary called Latuko (picturing naked Africans) was C (condemned...
There he turned a barn into a $40,000 air-conditioned studio and imported top-notch Hollywood technicians to edit and finish the film. The result: Hobbyist Queeny's first completed movie, Latuko, a 50-minute color documentary about a hitherto unphotographed tribe deep in the equatorial Sudan...
Test of Manhood. Latuko is a largely unrehearsed record of the ceremonies that go with such tribal institutions as initiation rites, hunting, fishing, rainmakmg. The movie is studded with fine shots of African game during an exciting hunting sequence. Its remarkable sound track carries the authentic cries of wild animals, the natives' strange lingo, the pulsing of their drums...
This week Latuko is being held over for its fourth week in two St. Louis neighborhood theaters, where it has been outdrawing movies from Hollywood. Eager film distributors are negotiating with Queeny for the rights to show the picture on a nationwide schedule. If he closes such a deal, the profits, like those of the St. Louis test run, will go to the Museum of Natural History...
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