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3 unusual facts about Les Palabres de Mboloko


Les Palabres de Mboloko

In 1965 it was censored by the President of Zaire, General Mobutu Sese Seko, who used the leopard as his emblem and who did not want people to watch films where the leopard was treated as a fool.

Les Palabres de Mboloko were a series of short 16mm color "animated cartoons for Africans" produced in the Belgian Congo by the priest Father Alexandre Van den Heuvel during the 1950s.

The C.C.A.C.C. had three production centers for its films: One, Edisco-Films in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) made Les Palabres de Mboloko.



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