Given by his physician only six months to live, dentist William B. Treutle of Tacoma, Washington did what anyone might do under such dire circumstances: he sold his practice and...got married! For their honeymoon, the newlyweds traveled to a remote region of Uganda with a 16mm camera to film the activities of the Karamoja, a singular tribe of people whose strange and at times unappetizing customs were certain to translate into boffo box office back home. Treutle, who had been misdiagnosed and was actually quite healthy, paid for his expedition by selling the footage to "America's Fearless Showman" Kroger Babb. The latter paired it with Robert (Anais Nin Observed) Snyder's grim documentary Half-Way To Hell about the rise of fascism in Germany, which included graphic atrocity footage from Hitler's concentration camps. Did anyone visit the concession stand during this engagement?
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