English: "Melissa and Marie Moxter compare skin colours. Melissa's sweetheart Tambookie standing by". A press cutting promoting the Symbol of Sacrifice a 1918 silent film
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Originally published in Stage and Cinema (Johannesburg), 16 March 1918, p. 15. Immediate source:
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"Melissa and Marie Moxter compare skin colours. Melissa's sweetheart Tambookie standing by" A press cutting promoting ''The Symbol of Savrifice'' a 1918 silent film
Uploaded a work by African Film Productions (per caption) from Originally published in ''Stage and Cinema'' (Johannesburg), 16 March 1918, p. 15. Immediate source: {{cite journal |last1=Parsons |first1=Neil |title=Nation-Building Movies Made in South Africa (1916–18): I.W. Schlesinger, Harold Shaw, and the Lingering Ambiguities of South African Union |journal=Journal of Southern African Studies |date=September 2013 |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=641–659 |doi=10.1080/03057070.2013.827003 |url=http...