{"id":3230,"date":"2013-05-03T18:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2013-05-05T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:25:19","slug":"16mm-film-400-ft-footage-of-birth-in-barack-obamas-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/16mm-film-400-ft-footage-of-birth-in-barack-obamas-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"16mm film (400 ft) footage of birth in Barack Obama&#8217;s Kenya!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LJyhcAx6Og\" height=\"317\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This old 16mm (color and sound) film was shot in and around Limuru, Kenya at a child care clinic and a model village named Kirathimo (Kirathimo Model Village).\u00a0 The film&#8217;s narrator indicated the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kirathimo<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> means a blessing in the Kikuyu language.\u00a0 Languages spoken in the film include British English, Kiyuyu and Swahili.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Most of the area which comprises Limuru was once known as the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">white highlands.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> rich agricultural land just south of the equator.\u00a0 The term <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">white highlands<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> derived from the British and other Europeans who realized the productive potential of this area and settled in large numbers with the support of the colonial government, establishing coffee and tea plantations, cereal farms and ranches. The temperature, year round, is approximately 75 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00a0 For a panoramic or bird&#8217;s eye view of this area of land please see the first 15 or so seconds of the film.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The film is approximately 13 minutes and 15 seconds in length and depicts the i<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ntegration of family planning eduction with normal health services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I recently bought the aged real of Kenyan 16mm film and subsequently paid a third party to transfer the footage (audio included) to digital format (i.e., wmv, mp4 and avi):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3234\" alt=\"16mm and bc adjacent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/16mm-and-bc-adjacent.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/16mm-and-bc-adjacent.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/16mm-and-bc-adjacent-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kirathimo Model Village was built, operated and run by the Kenya Red Cross Society (with assistance from the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Planned Parenthood Federation<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">) and their motto was <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Teach a mother, Save a Child.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A two (2) week residence program, at Kirathimo Model Village, was available for Kenyan mothers and their children.\u00a0 The program was free, without charge, for the mothers and their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At approximately the 2:33 minute measure in the film a good-looking female Kenya Red Cross worker appears. She&#8217;s fairly cute and attired in a semi-well-fitted uniform adorned abundantly with badges, patches and pins.\u00a0 She is also wearing an exceedingly cool hat!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Onwards of the 2:33 minute measure she intermittently appears throughout the rest of the film.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">For purposes of this blog report I&#8217;ll call her the &#8216;cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl&#8217; when referenced below.\u00a0 (She also appears ? to be wearing a wedding ring.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her duties, which appear to diverse and many, at the Kirathimo Model Village in Limuru, Kenya include that of a teacher.\u00a0 Some of what she taught included, though was not limited to, the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.\u00a0 Basic nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.\u00a0 First aid.\u00a0 Includes her demonstrating cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a CPR manikin. (I like the fact that the manikin appears to be black!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.\u00a0 Family planning.\u00a0 Includes birth control pills.\u00a0 Birth control pills can be seen at approximately 4:40 and 9:30 minute measures in this film.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In and round the 4:15 minute measure of the film the cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl presents a book regarding family planning which depicts (drawing) what might be described (by me) as two antipodal families:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.\u00a0 An\u00a0agrarian family.\u00a0 Father is seen wearing a large-brimmed hat to shade him from the sun a his pant legs are rolled up or cut off.\u00a0 The pregnant mother is holding a small infant and is sounded by other children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 2.\u00a0 An urban, educated or perhaps just adapted for time and location in society, family. Father is seen wearing a clean sharp suit.\u00a0 Mother is wearing a chic outfit.\u00a0 Two (2) healthy-sized happy children appear to be their only offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At approximately the 4:50 minute measure a woman can be seen wearing a head-covering which says <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AFRICA<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and the cameraman (or camerawoman) seems to take note of it.\u00a0 If this were a fraudulent video this might be considered as a telltale sign of fakery. However, this is NOT a fraudulent video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other instructors of the Kenya Red Cross in Limuru at the Kirathimo Model Village and child care clinic offered education which included, though was not limited to, the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.\u00a0 Protein deficiency (Kenyan infants and children primarily ate mashed potatoes and bananas which are not a good sources of protein.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.\u00a0 How to prepare nourishing meals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.\u00a0 Cooking safety. (Children are often inadvertently burned as the mothers cook.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.\u00a0 How to increase egg (chicken egg) production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.\u00a0 How to raise and care for chickens and rabbits (for meat and eggs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.\u00a0 How to use water twice (irrigating with water after its been used for cooking and cleaning.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.\u00a0 How to design and maintain a <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">compost heap.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an around the 11:05 thru 11:25 minutes measures a black (Kenyan? African?) doctor appears to be giving instructions, at the child care clinic, on how and when to use birth control pills.\u00a0 This doctor, who speaks in English (not American English), first appears at approximately the 10:20 minute measure.\u00a0 At the doctor&#8217;s side, as a language translator (Kikuyu?), is our cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In and around the 6:15 minute measure we get a glimpse of a female Kenya Red Cross staff member who&#8217;s uniform sleeve says &#8220;Ranch Staff&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Limuru&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In and around the 11:40 minute measure a female Kenyan health worker is shown getting out of a very old-looking car.\u00a0 License plate: KKN 564.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the first Sunday during the two week program at the Kirathimo Model Village the husbands and fathers come for a visit to see what the women are being taught.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the fathers said, on film, that he wants to sell all of his chicken eggs for beer.\u00a0 Our\u00a0cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl then told him to sell half of his chicken eggs for beer and to keep the other half to feed his children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another father said, on film, that he wants many children so that he can sell his daughters for cows (i.e., trade human girls for cows) and so that his sons can support him when he himself becomes an old man.\u00a0 Our cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl then told him that he must first consider how much it would cost to feed and educate the many children that he wants and that it will cost him less if he plans his family (e.g., has less children).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EDUCTION STIPULATION:\u00a0 The film indicates that relief supplies (e.g., food, water and equipment) are only used\/supplied along with education.\u00a0 Without education the women and children would only return, over and over, for more free supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At approximately the 11:32 minute measure a Kenyan woman named Wambui Hinga is issued and presented with a certificate from the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kenya Red Cross Society.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 The certificate is dated 10.4.70 which could mean October 4, 1970 or April 10, 1970 depending on which date format was being used.\u00a0 Her name, Wambui Hinga, is written in cursive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The certificate indicates, in writing, that,<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This is to certify that Wambui Hinga has attended a two-week course at the Kirathimo Model Village, Limuru.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The certificate was presented by a white woman (European?) and is also signed by someone although I can&#8217;t discern the signature nor their title.\u00a0 Our cute &amp; cool Kenya Red Cross girl is standing adjacent the white woman as she is presenting certificates to program participants.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3255\" alt=\"kirathimo model village limuru\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kirathimo-model-village-limuru.png\" width=\"621\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kirathimo-model-village-limuru.png 458w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kirathimo-model-village-limuru-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m elated and happy to see that within this film we don&#8217;t see many whites or Europeans.\u00a0 I never liked the idea of whites and Europeans in Africa &#8216;teaching&#8217; blacks and Africans how to live.\u00a0 However, along with a preponderance of black Africans we see in this film (instructors and participants) there are a few white women who appear in this film.\u00a0 They are listed below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In or around the 11:30 thru 11:40 minute measure: White female Red Cross staff member can be seen presenting certificates (ibid) to program participants.\u00a0 She is the first white (probably European) seen in the this film.\u00a0 The narrator gives her name but I cant discern or understand what is said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In or around the 12:10 thru 12:20 minute measure: White female with glasses is shown weighing an African baby.\u00a0 She is the second white (probably European) seen in this film.\u00a0 There are also three (3) other white women who can be seen in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In or around the 12:25 thru 12:35 minute measure:\u00a0 White female (presumably European) is shown talking and playing with small African children. \u00a0A few children are riding small bicycles, a couple children are playing on an old something which resembles a Merry-Go-Round and several other children are sitting on the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Film was produced\/filmed by<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Vision Associates Production.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Film was presented by <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Planned Parenthood Federation<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> with the help of the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Family Planning Association of Kenya<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kenya Red Cross<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kenya.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. 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