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particular experiences. This empathic involvement, natural to
the oral society and the audile-tactile man, is cracked by the
phonetic alphabet which abstracts the visual component from
the sensory complex. This leads to one further point of
Wilson’s. He explained the relevance of Chaplin technique in
making films for native audiences. The story was in the
gestures, and the gestures were complex and precise. Wilson
noted the inability of Africans to follow complex narratives but
also their subtlety in dramatization:
One thing we were ignorant of at this time, and
something we ought to have known a lot more about is
that those African audiences are very good at role-
playing. Part of a child’s education in a pre-literate
society is role-playing; he’s got to learn to play the role of
elders in certain given situations. One thing fortunately