Excerpt from an (American?) adventure film.
Wide shot. A desert. A lion. Vultures take flight. An explorer at a radio device, medium shot [frame scan 1]: "So schwer es auch geht, wir müssen zurück zum Pfad des... " (As difficult as it is, we must return to the trail of...) - A group of Maasai warriors. Off-screen commentary describes their rules of lion hunting. Music: gloomy drumming. Pan across the Maasai, standing and seated [frame scan 2]. Individual Maasai in medium shot [frame scan 3]. Orders are issued seemingly (difficult to understand). The only Maasai with the right to kill the lion dons his headdress The lion hunter before the high court. More lion hunters with headdresses. Off-screen commentary: "Erhalten wir die Erlaubnis..." (We have the permission...) - A cameraman and his assistant [frame scans 4&5]. A lion. The assistant reaches for a pistol and shoots but misses the lion. Only after a multitude of shots have been fired [frame scan 6] does the lion fall to the ground, dead.
Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 23.02.2011
