The comparison between Moi, a Noir and La Pyramide Humaine portrays a very different reality of Abidjah, Treuichville. The question of authority, which is the most "true" version, for me, does not arise because in neither of the two films did the filmed subjects attempt to "speak for" the city. They talk about themselves and their lives. In Moi, un Noir, they talk about the different cities based on the class/economic difference and in La Pyramide humaine it's about exploring the different cities between what they call European students and African students. Even though Moi, un Noir was released in 1958 and La Pyramide Humaine came out in 1961, I wonder if the filming of the two ever overlapped, if the films shared footage like that of the La Goumbe social club or the water skiing in Moi , a Noir. If they had been filmed in series and years apart (which I believe is the case – the South African event they talk about in the film resembles the Sharpville massacre in 1960), how much would the familiarity of Abidjah and the people of Abidjah influenced Rouche: from longer immersion/more participant observation to the simple production ability to get things like permission papers to film at an airport/on a runway or find a plane for the aerial view at the end of La Pyramide Humaine, knowing that technical awareness of La Goumbe night filming conditions to make better shots the second time, find a classroom for the lesson scenes, possibly find some of the last La Pyramide Humaine participants who had gone to La Goumbe before or talked to water skiers, etc. Then the lack of use of relatively “high touch” production in Moi un Noir and the use in La Py… half the paper… of control that echoed what the participants were representing. Throughout, the film's participants' presentation of multiple and diverse perceptions of the same reality (e.g., who has won Nadine's affection, one person, everyone, no one?) is a subtle version of Rashmon's explicit presentation of multiple realities in conflict. This also fits well with the different presentations of the Abidjah between Moi, a Noir and La Pyramide Humaine. Incidentally, I think the music of the party opened with the same piece played in the bar in the attack scene of the Battle of Algiers. The Battle of Algiers was made years later, so it was probably a casual connection, both were simply playing a popular dance song, but the sound of the music accompanied by an image of young French people dancing in a colonial setting made me think immediately that the party was not going to end well at all.