Mbarara Town 1961-2015: A short video comparison

Mbarara Municipality is the largest urban centre in Southern and Western Uganda and 3rd largest town (by population) in Uganda.

This short video is a basic comparison of what the town looked like in 1961 and what it looks like in 2015.

The 1961 footage is from a documentary called Gentle Winds of Change, made by an American academic visiting Ankole (the region where Mbarara is located) between 1959 and 1961.

This is a preview of a longer feature I intend to make on the changes that have taken place in the social economic lives of the people of Ankole over the last 50 years.

Kampala Night Lights

Took the Canon EOS 600D out on the town one Saturday night to see if I could shot night video with only the surrounding lights for illumination.

I now know its quite possible and with a few tweaks in the settings and focus I can probably get something less grainy  and sharper- learning curve just got less steep.

Scenes from a banana market in Mbarara

As the title suggests, this is a short video of scenes from a banana (matooke) market just outside Mbarara town shot in January 2014.

The bananas are brought from the surrounding villages and loaded onto the waiting trucks to be transported to Kampala.

Mbarara district is one of Uganda's leading producers of bananas, which are a staple food for most people in Central, Western and Southern Uganda.