16mm
Silent
According to the filmmakers, "The scenario was our own—concerning the difficulties confronting a British telegraph company in maintaining communications between Uganda and the Sudan. A story requiring such foreign locale—Africa's desert, veldt and jungle—was written with the object of demonstrating to our audiences the cinema possibilities of our northeastern states" (111).
Discussed by the filmmakers in " 'King of Allah's Garden' Is Bay State Movie" (American Cinematographer, March 1937, 111).
Amateur Cinema