This clip from the 1931 documentary Christus im Urwald [Christ in the Jungle] depicted the work of German-Catholic missionaries among the Limba people along the Sanaga River in the former German colony of Cameroon in west-central Africa. The filmmaker Berthold Kromer—himself a member of the Catholic Congregation of the Holy Spirit, known as the Spiritans—wrote, edited, and produced this work. In it, he showed the many good works that missionary brothers and sisters engaged in, such as caring for orphans, teaching school children, offering cooking classes to area women, and leading a daily “Turnstunde” (hourlong gymnastics instruction) that included marching and military drills. All of these efforts furthered the larger aim of converting the people and forging a new generation of indigenous clerics. As the film’s concluding section declared, the missionaries sought to spread the message of Christ “even across the African jungle and its inhabitants.” Catholic and Protestant organizations from Germany already had nearly a half-century history of such missionary work in Africa, primarily in regions that the country controlled as colonies prior to 1918. Many missionaries returned after the war, even though Article 118 of the Versailles Treaty stipulated that Germany lose all of its overseas colonies. France and Great Britain divided its former colony of Cameroon [Kamerun], for instance, with France governing the portion in which these German missionaries operated in 1931. Producers often used films like this one to raise funds and generate public support for their missionary work. At the same time, such movies nursed nostalgic feelings for the lost empire while simultaneously appealing to audiences’ desires to see exotic fauna, arresting landscapes, and unfamiliar customs and cultural practices.