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1980AFRICA
Footage of the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s - one of the worst humanitarian events of the 20th century. Shots of the people making the best of a bad situation.

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Ethiopian men, kneeling around pots of food on the ground, look into the camera. Dozens of small children are gathered around the men as an interpreter asks them whey they came to this land. They respond they were driven there due to an infestation of insects. Children are heard coughing in the bkgd. the interviewer, pad and pen in hand, asks several questions of the men about their situation.
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Tilt down on an African woman bending over a make shift pan on an open pit and preparing food, looks like a big pancake, for her children who are sitting on the ground around her. She covers the pancake with a large pate and rocks to keep it closed.
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CUs a young African girl, maybe teen, sitting around a small open fire pit, heating up a can of food.
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Pan through an Ethiopian village, people standing at their huts, around fires cooking whatever food they have, mothers with small children, people sitting on the ground.
01:06:07 367.94 thumbnail
CU a child peacefully asleep in a cloth sling attached to his young mother's back.
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A young Ethiopian boy crouched on the ground looks at the camera.
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CU a pot with fast boiling murky water on an open fire.
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A little Ethiopian child, maybe 5 or 6 with beads around its neck, z'in to CU of his / her cute face.
01:07:51 471.17 thumbnail
A lone African woman walking through the desert holding a basket on her head. Z'out from the lone woman reveals the vast desolate arid desert. Z'in again on the barefoot woman holding on tight to the basket on her head.
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Pan the arid African desert.
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Another woman walking in the desert holding on to a large round basket on her head. Her two young boys following alongside.
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Z'in and out on an Ethiopian village on a ridge in the desert, peaks of the buildings or huts are seen from a distance. A makeshift fence surrounds the village. Terrain is brown, dry and rugged.
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Cutaway from the village to an unclear gray dusty sky likely from a dust storm. The dust encompasses the village, POV from behind an iron fence off perhaps a balcony overlooking the village.
01:12:20 740.62 thumbnail
Nighttime shot, full moon over the desert.
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