Like Steven Mintz, I loved "Black and White in Co;lor", and thought
it gave good insights into both European and African views of war and
colonialism.
The English titles and sub-titles, however, include an important
error. They describe the film as being set in French West Africa
when in fact it was set in French Equatorial Africa (as the
French-language sound track clearly indicates). The film was made in
Cote d'Ivoire, which is doubtless the source of the error.
But the story told in film could only have unfolded in Oubangui-Chari
or, more likely, Tchad under French rule: a colonial post including
a number of French settlers is unaware of the outbreak of hostilities
in World War I, and suddenly stumbles into war against a German post
on the other side of the frontier. Anyplace else on the continent,
all would have been alerted to the war by telegraph.