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   â€˜Slave Trade in the World Today,’ a Documentary, Arrives   
   Nov. 24, 1964, New York Times   
   â€œSLAVE TRADE IN THE WORLD TODAY,â€� a feature â€� length documentary filmed   
   largely in the Middle East and Africa that arrived at the DeMille and 34th   
   Street East Theaters yesterday, focuses on a horrendous evil that does not   
   appear to affect its    
   victims too horribly. A viewer's anomalous impression of this traffic in   
   humans in. the film is educational rather than shocking.   
      
   The team of Italian photographers supervised by Roberto Malenotti, the   
   director, and produced by Maleno Malenotti and inspired by Sean O'Callaghan's   
   book on the subject and Robin Maugham's personal research have come up with   
   illustrations in color and    
   blackâ€�andâ€�white of surrepticious slavery practices that have resisted   
   efforts of all civilized societies.   
      
   In the film's opening shots in London, Mr. Maugham, nephew of Somerset Maugham   
   and an established author himself, castigates both the United States and Great   
   Britain for apathy toward the practice. He says action against the slavery   
   would affront Arab    
   potentates of the petroleumâ€�rich lands who are the chief supporters of the   
   slave traffic. Mr. Maugham even cites his acquisition of an African slave boy   
   for £37 ($103.60). He then set him free.   
      
   In compiling their footage, often shot with telescopic lenses, the teams seem   
   to have concentrated on the nearâ€�naked, who appear apathetic to their   
   reported plight. A caravan of slave boys, who seem frightened and scurry away   
   as local police discover    
   them, has the impact of immediacy. A slave market near Khartoum is realistic   
   and the Whipping of African natives to select the strongest for sale is both   
   raw and primitive. Visits to harems on the Sudan border, in Tuareg country and   
   in Saudi Arabia, as    
   well as a trip to teeming Mecca, point up the poverty of Africans, which the   
   commentary says drives them to slavery. But . slavery is a condition that they   
   do not seem to abhor.   
      
   One wonders at the inclusion of scenes of stripâ€�teasers in ultramodern   
   Beirut nightclubs, twisters on a South African boite and nearâ€�nude   
   concubines, including a blond English lass (whose private film was used)   
   happily bathing to point up the slavery    
   issue. The strippers, the concubines and the women whose favors are sold by   
   their husbands to others may not be gay but they certainly do not seem unhappy.   
      
   â€œSlave Trade in the World Todayâ€� seriously does underline pernicious   
   practices by oilâ€�rich Arabians that make a mockery of the Koran, and ancient   
   African customs frowned upon by the governments of newly created states.   
      
   But in exposing the evil faces of the “Slave Trade,â€� the producers also   
   appear to have overexposed their bodies.   
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   SLAVE TRADE IN THE WORLD TODAY, inspired by a book by Sean O'Callaghan, “The   
   Slave Trade Today,â€� and official reports by Robin Maugham; directed by   
   Roberto Malenotti; edited by Stephen Billings; produced by Maleno Malenotti.   
   Presented by Walter Readeâ   
   €�Sterling. Commentary written by Elihu Winer and narrated by Allen Swift. At   
   the DeMille Theater, Broadway and 47th Street, and the 34th Street East   
   Theater, east of Third Avenue. Running time: 87 minutes.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/24/archives/slave-trade-in-the-w   
   rld-today-a-documentary-arrives.html   
      
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