Karamoja (film)

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name = Karimoja


caption = Uncensored Sights That Can Never Be Filmed Again!
director = William B. Treutle
producer = Kroger Babb
writer = T.F. Woods
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distributor = Hallmark Productions
Modern Film Distributors
released = 1954
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country = United States
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imdb_id = 0229507

"Karamoja" was a 1954 film produced by exploitation filmmaker Kroger Babb. A documentary of a native tribe from Uganda, the film was marketed by Babb to focus on the imagery that would be shocking to an American audience, including advertising which claimed that the tribe wore "only the wind and live [d] on blood and beer."David F. Friedman, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990; ISBN 0-87975-608-X).]

Scenes in the film included "the bleeding of cattle and drinking of the warm blood, and self-mutilation as a form of ornamentation,"Eric Schaefer, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999; ISBN 0-8223-2374-5).] as well as a full-color circumcision scene.

"Karamoja" proved to be less controversial than many of Babb's other films, grossing less in box office revenue as a result.

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