Have you seen Drum recently?

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name = Have you seen Drum recently?


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director = Jürgen Schadeberg
producer = The Schadeberg Movie Company
writer = Richard Beynon
starring = Miriam Makeba
Stan Motjuwadi
Can Themba
Thoko Thomo
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cinematography = Tony Mander
André Pienaar
editing = Sharron Hawkes
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runtime = 77 min.
country = South Africa
language = English
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imdb_id = 0212208

"Have you seen Drum recently?" is a 1998 film which uses photographs from the "Drum" archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its contribution to the cultural and political life of South Africa.

In the 1950s, "Drum" focused on urban blacks living in a white-dominated apartheid world. It contained articles about the township jazz scene, crime, fiction and sport and documented the hopes, aspirations and despair of the urban, educated black sophisticate.

The film includes such images as Oliver Tambo as a lawyer, Trevor Huddleston demonstrating against the demolition of Sophiatown, Nelson Mandela sparring in the boxing ring, Chief Luthuli the Nobel Prize winner and the singer Miriam Makeba.

The background music reflects the best of the fifties e.g. big band, jazz, swing, kwela and penny whistle.

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