The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940

The nineteenth century culminated in a wealth of scientific inventiveness which resulted in a complete and fundamental change in social life within the following fifty years. The more widespread use of telegraphy, the expansion of the telephone service, the increased application of electricity and the invention of the motor car, the sudden appearance and phenomenal development of the cinema, and finally the invention and speedy public utilisation of the aeroplane and the wireless have combined to obliterate (except in trivial instances such as its "naughtiness") appreciation of the atmosphere of the period in which motion pictures first appeared. In South Africa, a remarkable degree of self-reliance was practiced by the populations of comparatively isolated towns during the nineties. Despite the slowness of communication, the laboriousness of travel and the leisurely tempo of life in general, despite every adverse circumstance, people construed out or their immediate surroundings a cultural life far more enterprising than that produced by favourable modern conditions

There was a man : the life and times of Sir Arnold Theiler, K.C.M.G., of Onderstepoort

1. The feral world -- 2. Africa South -- 3. The Theiler tale 1867-1891 -- 4. Vials of evil 1891-1893 -- 5. Sisyphus in the golden city 1893-1895 -- 6. Continental calamity 1895-1896 -- 7. Crescendo 1896-1897 -- 8. Crisis 1897 -- 9. Over the hill 1897-1898 --- 10. Into the world 1898-1899 -- 11. Horse doctor at war 1899-1900 -- 12. A country corrupted 1900 -- 13. Shuttlecock 1900-1901 -- 14. The vane changes 1901-1902 -- 15. Daspoort and the ‘reconstruction’ 1902-1903 -- 16. Evolution and revelation 1904-1905 -- 17. Upheaval 1905-1907 -- 18. Recognition 1907-1909 -- 19. Union ... and a swarm of gadflies 1909-1912 -- 20. Heresy and heroics 1912-1918 -- 21. 'Veni, Vidi, Vici!' 1918-1920 -- 22. Ambassador at large 1920-1924 -- 23. 'The Theiler institute' 1924-1927 -- 24. A throne between two stools 1927-1932 -- 25. Laurels, lions and Limbo 1932-1936 -- Postscript -- Appendices -- A. Natal Commission's report on Pitchford's Rinderpest claim 1897 -- B. Kruger's reply to Botha's birthday cable 1904 -- C. Lord Hastings' speech proposing Theiler for the Royal Agricultural Society's second award of its Gold Medal 1934 -- D. Smuts' address at unveiling of Theiler Statue 1939 -- E. Sequence of Theiler's principal awards -- F. Glossaries -- G. Bibliography and Sources -- Author’s note -- Index -- Footnotes by the author.The book has been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.Includes indexby Thelma Gutsche.ab201

Theiler - his personal significance today

Delivered on the occasion of the First Faculty day of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria on 5 September 1984