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Ubangi is a filmed account of the Davenport-Quigley expedition into the Belgian Congo. As indicated by the title, the narrative concentrates on the unusual tribes indigenous to the region, and on those tribes' customs and rituals. Whenever the audience has had its fill of close-ups of Ubangi men and women, the producers cut away to shots of zebras, elephants and hippo. No pro-ecology film this, Ubangi offers several gruesome shots of Congolese wildlife being tracked down, killed, and skinned. With all this going on, an interlude with a cannibal tribe nearly qualifies as comedy relief!