Rastus Among the Zulus

Rastus Among the Zulus is an extant short comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company.

[1] It depicts an African American falling asleep and being "shanghaied" before being shipwrecked and captured by Zulus.

As he is prepared to be cooked in a pot he is asked if he will choose to marry the chief's daughter in order to save his life.

An advertisement for a split reel of Sigmund Lubin's A Widow's Wiles and this film survives.

[1] As a comedy, it was a parody of D. W. Griffith's A Zulu's Heart[5] and other contemporary films that depicted Zulus in adventure settings where the white man usually came out on top, but was likewise intended to emphasize the superiority of Western European culture.