''A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization'' was a UK film released in

1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...

, directed and written by

Cherry Kearton Richard Kearton FZS, FRPS (2 January 1862 – 8 February 1928) and Cherry Kearton (8 July 1871 – 27 September 1940), brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed inno ...

. Shot on 35mm film in silent black and white, it was distributed by WTC. The film was produced in 1911 by the Ethnographic Society of London, who had previously commissioned Kearton to film a traditional Kenyan dance performed to honour

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...

when he visited the country in 1909.

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* 1912 films British black-and-white films British silent short films Films directed by Cherry Kearton {{1910s-UK-film-stub