Karamoja (film)

Karamoja was a 1954 film produced by exploitation filmmaker Kroger Babb. A documentary film 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."[1]

Karamoja
Uncensored Sights That Can Never Be Filmed Again!
Directed byWilliam B. Treutle
Produced byKroger Babb
Written byT.F. Woods
Distributed byHallmark Productions
Modern Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
CountryUnited States

Scenes in the film included "the bleeding of cattle and drinking of the warm blood, and self-mutilation as a form of ornamentation,"[2] as well as a full-color circumcision scene.[1]

Karamoja proved to be less controversial than many of Babb's other films, grossing less in box office revenue as a result.[2]

References
  1. David F. Friedman, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990; ISBN 0-87975-608-X).
  2. 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).


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