1.
LV SANDYS HOUSE.
0.05

2.
GV BRIDE ARRIVES WITH UNCLE.
0.11

3.
LV OTHER GUESTS ARRIVE.
0.15

4.
SV GROOM AND BRIDE WITH BRIDE'S UNCLE, VICAR ON LEFT. ZOOM IN TO BRIDE AND GROOM.
0.24

5.
SV CONGREGATION.
0.27

6.
GV WEDDING SERVICE.
0.30

7.
SV BLINDS FULLED DOWN.
0.33

8.
GV PAN AFRICANS LOOK OVER BARBED WIRE.
0.40

9.
GV BRIDE AND GROOM LEAVE CHURCH.
0.48

10.
LV BRIDE AND GROOM AT TABLE, CAKE IN F/G.
0.51

11.
SV BRIDE AND GROOM AT TABLE.
0.59

12.
CU BRIDE.
1.03

13.
GV GUESTS TOAST COUPLE.
1.09

14.
SCU BRIDE DRINKS CHAMPAGNE.
1.18

15.
SV AFRICANS LOOK ON.
1.22

16.
SV BRIDE AND GROOM CUT CAKE.
1.27

17.
LV PRESSMEN - BRIDE AND GROOM IN F/G.
1.30

18.
SV ZOOM IN TO CU BRIDE CUTS CAKE.
1.37



Initials JT/S/MGT/BB



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Background: A 50-YEAR-OLD NEW ZEALANDER FROM AUCKLAND, MR. STUART FULLER-SANDYS, ON WEDNESDAY MARRIED AN AFRICAN GIRL AT NGONDOMA, ABOUT 60 MILES FROM QUE QUE, SOUTHERN RHODESIA. HE BECAME A WIDOWER THREE YEARS AGO AND PAID GBP35 BRIDAL PRICE FOR HIS NEW WIFE, MARGARET DUBE, A 22-YEAR-OLD MATABELE GIRL.

MR. FULLER-SANDYS, AN EX-RAF PILOT, IS AN AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANT EMPLOYED BY THE NATIVE DEPARTMENT. BUT THE WEDDING HAS LED TO HIS SUSPENSION. HE SAID HE WAS CONSIDERING TAKING HIS WIFE TO NEW ZEALAND TO SHOW HER THE COUNTRY. HE SAID THERE WAS NO COLOUR BAR THERE AND THEY MIGHT SETTLE.

THE WEDDING WAS HELD AT THE GROOM'S RANCH. MOST OF THE GUESTS WHO CROWDED THE VERANDAH FOR THE SERVICE WERE EUROPEANS. AFRICANS WATCHED FROM OUTSIDE. BECAUSE THE BRIDE'S FATHER COULD NEITHER SPEAK NOR UNDERSTAND ENGLISH, SHE WAS GIVEN AWAY BY HER UNCLE, A SCHOOLTEACHER IN QUE QUE.

MR. FULLER-SANDYS SAID HIS WIFE WAS A "RAW AFRICAN" TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS AGO, WORKING ON HIS RANCH. ABOUT 18 MONTHS AGO, HE BEGAN EDUCATING HER "AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH HER". TODAY SHE SPEAKS GOOD ENGLISH, HAS A GROUNDING IN MATHEMATICS AND HAS ABSORBED A GOOD DEAL OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

AT THE RECEPTION ON THE LAWNS AFTERWARDS, THE BRIDE HAD HER FIRST SIP OF CHAMPAGNE.