title: Liechtenstein: see Andorra

content: Porterfield, Jeanne

content: Chickering, Lisa

content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 9: Photographs / 9.3: Travel photography / 9.3.2: Travel slide collection / Europe:

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

unittitle: Photographs

unittitle: Travel photography

unittitle: Travel slide collection

unittitle: Europe:

unittitle: Liechtenstein: see Andorra

title: Liechtenstein: see Andorra


unitCode: HSFA

level: item

title: Afghan Nomads: The Maldar

label: General

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2014.2.6

label: Collection Creator

content: American University (Washington, D.C.)

indexedContent: American University (Washington, D.C.)

content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-

indexedContent: Miller, Norman N., 1933-

label: See more items in

content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 2014-002

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 756 feet, 16mm)

label: Date

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

label: Collection Citation

content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Collection Rights

label: Scope and Contents

content:
Edited film explores the nomadic Maldar people as they interact in their camp and in commerce with townspeople in Aq Kupruk in the Afghanistan valley of the Hindu Kush. The Maldar reveal the mixture of faith and distrust that has kept nomads and sedentary people separate yet interdependent over the centuries with an emphasis on political attitudes and questions of a people's integration into the nation.  FIlmed by David Hancock and Herb Di Gioia.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Nomads camel caravans Afghanistan ; Nomads camels migration Afghanistan ; Towns, villages and other settlements

Credits: Hancock, David filmmaker

label: Collection Restrictions

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

type: Collection

type: Series

unittitle: Accession 2014-002

type: Item

unittitle: Afghan Nomads: The Maldar

archival_repository: HSFA

digital_assets_available: false

title: Afghan Nomads: The Maldar


level: file

title: Costa Patagónica

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 1: Completed Films and Videos / 1.1: Films directed by Prelorán

label: Sponsor

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Educational film documents the flora and fauna of the entire length of the Atlantic coast of the Patagonia region of Argentina. Film was shot in 1961 and released in 1962.

label: Series Restrictions

content: Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Jorge Prelorán films

unittitle: Completed Films and Videos

type: Subseries

unittitle: Films directed by Prelorán

type: File

unittitle: Costa Patagónica

title: Costa Patagónica


title: [Fiestas en] Volcan Higueras

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

content: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 5: Production Files

content: circa 1969

label: Container

content: Box 2

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Includes Spanish and English narration scripts.

content:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and the digital books.

Access to the Jorge Prelorán collection requires an appointment.

unittitle: Production Files

unittitle: [Fiestas en] Volcan Higueras

title: [Fiestas en] Volcan Higueras


level: collection

label: Local Number

content: HSFA 2013.13.1

label: Creator

content: Smith, Barbara B., 1920-

indexedContent: Smith, Barbara B., 1920-

label: Place

content: Oceania

indexedContent: Oceania

content: New Zealand

indexedContent: New Zealand

label: Topic

content: Dance

indexedContent: Dance

label: Provenance

content: Received from Barbara B. Smith in 2013.

content: Smith, Barbara B., 1920-

label: Culture

content: Rapanui (Easter Island people)

indexedContent: Rapanui (Easter Island people)

content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, color sound; 100 feet, 16mm)

label: Custodial History

content: Previously titled "South Pacific Festival of Arts, 1976: Rapa Nui Dance 1976."

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Identifier

content: Collection descriptions

indexedContent: Collection descriptions

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Sound films

indexedContent: Sound films

label: Citation

content: Barbara B. Smith film of Rapa Nui dance at the South Pacific Festival of Arts, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Processing Information

content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.

label: Rights

label: Genre/Form

content: Sound films

content:
Footage of the 1976 South Pacific Festival of the Arts held in New Zealand shows dances from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and other Pacific Islands.  Footage was shot by Barbara B. Smith.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

label: Restrictions

unitid: Collection HSFA.2013.13


title: Central Europe, Southern Baden -- Sword Dance at Uberlingen

label: General

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.588; E00536

label: Collection Creator

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

label: See more items in

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel (29 minutes, color sound, 16mm)

label: Date

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

label: Collection Citation

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Collection Rights

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

label: Scope and Contents

content:
Edited film: this performance begins with the morning breakfast of the color company and continues with the march to the divine service and then to the town square. After the mayor has given his approval, the sword dance is performed and followed by a maiden's dance. A second version of the sword dance was filmed again.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Southern Baden ; Europe

label: Collection Restrictions

usage_flag: Large EAD


title: Episode 3. Mistaken Identity (A and B rolls)

label: Collection Producer

content: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)

content: British Broadcasting Corporation

indexedContent: British Broadcasting Corporation

content: Grant, Michael

indexedContent: Grant, Michael

content: Meech, Richard, 1954-

indexedContent: Meech, Richard, 1954-

content: Malone, Adrian

indexedContent: Malone, Adrian

content: Biniman Productions (Firm)

indexedContent: Biniman Productions (Firm)

label: Collection Host

content: Maybury-Lewis, David, 1929-2007

indexedContent: Maybury-Lewis, David

content: Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection / Series 1: Edited film materials

content: 4 Film reels (color negative, 16mm, 4054 feet)

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1989/1997 type:inclusive

content: circa 1992

label: Container

content: Item 2012.13.4 OF

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Film reels

content: The Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution.

content: The Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the National Anthropological Film Collection may not be played.

unittitle: Edited film materials


title: Santa Cruz Group, Ndende (Melanesians) -- Making Feather Money

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.830; E01401

indexedContent: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (11 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content:
Edited film: demonstrates the creation of money using the whitish feathers of the pacific dove (Ducula pacifica), the red feathers of the nectar bird (Myzomela cardinalis), and the juice of the paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). All of these elements are tied together with bark bast.
Legacy Keywords: Solomon Islands ; Santa Cruz Group, Ndende ; Oceania; Melanesians

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.


title: Brazil, Tocantins Region (Craho) -- Baking Flat Cakes

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.883; E01176

indexedContent: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (2 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: a woman bakes a manioc cake wrapped in leaves in the hot ashes of a low fire, then shares the food with children.
Legacy Keywords: Brazil ; Brazil, Tocantins Region ; South America; Craho


title: Central Europe, Schleswig -- Twisting Coarse Grass Rope for Roof Thatching

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.575; E00540

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: shows the production of two-strand rope made from reed grass (Carex). Ropes of this type were formerly used as material for thatching a roof.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Schleswig ; Europe

unittitle: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection


title: Gilbert Islands, Tabiteuea (Micronesians) -- Preparation of the Pandanus Preserve "Kabubu"

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.794; E00855

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (16 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: includes the entire process of preparing this pandanus dish beginning with the men who harvest the pandanus fruit in the bush near the village of Buariki. The women of the village cut the fruit, steam it in an earth oven, and knead the resulting mash into flat cakes. The cakes are placed in a bake oven overnight and then set out in the sun for about two weeks. After another brief period in the oven the hard cakes are broken up and pandanus leaf packages are filled with the pulverized substance.
Legacy Keywords: Kiribati ; Gilbert Islands, Tabiteuea ; Oceania; Micronesians


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Miao) -- Song Recital

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.437; E01313

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, color sound, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: the village headman Puyai Ying Seng Tao presents a love song, one of his own compositions. The song is performed during the New Year festival, when general festivity and courtship pleasures are a traditional part of the celebrations.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Miao


title: PBS [Public Broadcasting Service]

label: Collection Collaborator

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

indexedContent: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

indexedContent: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

indexedContent: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

indexedContent: Asch, Timothy

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

indexedContent: Marshall, John

content: Marshall, Lorna

indexedContent: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 7: Correspondence

label: Sponsor

content: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

content: 1995 July

content: Box 1

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Text

indexedContent: Text

content: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.

content:
The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings.  Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

unittitle: Correspondence

unittitle: PBS [Public Broadcasting Service]

title: PBS [Public Broadcasting Service]


title: Trapiches Caseros

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 1: Completed Films and Videos / 1.1: Films directed by Prelorán / Trapiches Caseros

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

content: 1 Film reel (sound, color reversal film; 340 ft; 9.5 minutes, 16 mm)

content: Item 2007.10.18

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Film reels

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

label: Series Restrictions

content: Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Trapiches Caseros

title: Trapiches Caseros


title: Indian Boy in Today's World

label: General

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1994.21.121

content: REMC 2 educational film collection

indexedContent: REMC 2 educational film collection

content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 468 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content: REMC 2 educational film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film follows a Makah youth who leaves the Indian Reservation in Washington State to find work in Seattle in order to help support his family. Distributed by Coronet.

Legacy Keywords: Rural-urban migration ; Family ; Indian reservations g Washington (State) ; Poverty

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: REMC 2 educational film collection

unittitle: Indian Boy in Today's World

title: Indian Boy in Today's World


title: Ellice Islands, Niutao (Polynesians) -- Construction of a Large Outrigger Boat

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.844; E00408

label: Collection Creator

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (50 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film: shows all of the important phases of construction as a master boat builder and his people build an outrigger boat in the old style of Niutao. Trees are felled and individual parts are cut out of them -- the hull, bow and stern pieces, planks, outrigger, etc. Precision and the assembly process are done and coconut-fiber cord is used to connect the pieces. After eight working days the craft is finished; a feast is held, and the boat is tested in the open sea.
Legacy Keywords: Tuvalu ; Ellice Islands, Niutao ; Oceania; Polynesians


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Black Lahu) -- Making a Bamboo Board

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.404; E01248

indexedContent: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

label: See more items in

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (2 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: the village chief of Doi Muse prepares bamboo for creating a board. At the end of the process, the board is laid over two beams to dry and is weighted down with wooden blocks.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Black Lahu


title: Middle East, Central Anatolia (Turks) -- Cutting Wheat with Scythes

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.698; E02028

indexedContent: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: in the small steep wheat fields of the Anatolian dry farming regions, practically the whole family works to harvest the grain. The men mow the wheat with scythes while the women and older children collect the rows of stalks and stack them into ring-like heaps, where the wheat is kept until the threshing starts.
Legacy Keywords: Turkey ; Middle East, Central Anatolia ; Middle East; Turks


title: 1 map, Luderitz Bay (1302) US Airforce World Aeronautical Chart

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

content: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 13: Maps and Kinship diagrams

content: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

label: Date

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Identifier

content: HSFA.1983.11, Item 2008.10.66

content: Archival materials

content: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.

content:
The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings.  Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

unitid: Collection 2008.10.66

unittitle: Maps and Kinship diagrams


title: Ecology (An Ecology of Mind, episode 4)

content: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)

content: British Broadcasting Corporation

indexedContent: British Broadcasting Corporation

content: Grant, Michael

indexedContent: Grant, Michael

content: Meech, Richard, 1954-

indexedContent: Meech, Richard, 1954-

content: Malone, Adrian

indexedContent: Malone, Adrian

content: Biniman Productions (Firm)

indexedContent: Biniman Productions (Firm)

content: Maybury-Lewis, David, 1929-2007

indexedContent: Maybury-Lewis, David

content: Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection / Series 2: Unedited film materials / 2.1: Outtakes

content: 3 Cans (containers)

content: Item 2012.13.1-98 through 100 OF

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

content: Cans (containers)

indexedContent: Cans (containers)

content: The Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution.

content: The Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the National Anthropological Film Collection may not be played.

unittitle: Unedited film materials

unittitle: Outtakes

unittitle: Ecology (An Ecology of Mind, episode 4)

title: Ecology (An Ecology of Mind, episode 4)


title: Gilbert Islands, Nonuti (Micronesians) -- Gathering Sea Animals

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.772; E01006

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (17 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

label: Collection Citation

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Collection Rights

content:
Edited film: shows various techniques and activities involved as the people of Nonuti gather potential seafood: youths scrape the beach at ebb tide for mussels which are later heated over a fire for consumption; another youth digs with his bare hands for crabs which are then roasted between coconut palm leaves; a woman digs for mussels while another woman probes for worms and cuts off the desired skin; and a man catches an octopus with his bare hands and kills it with a bite to the eye.
Legacy Keywords: Kiribati ; Gilbert Islands, Nonuti ; Oceania; Micronesians

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.


title: Central Sudan, Southern Wadai (Djaya) -- "Djele" Dance "Parama"

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.244; E01444

indexedContent: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, color sound, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

label: Scope and Contents

content:
Edited film: shows an entire performance of the parama dance of the young Djaya people of Chad. The participants dance counter-clockwise in a circle formation and are accompanied by two drummers.
Legacy Keywords: Sudan ; Central Sudan, Southern Wadai ; Africa; Djaya

label: Collection Restrictions


title: Central Sudan, Middle Chari (Kaba) -- Wrestling Match

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.253; E01220

indexedContent: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (11 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: wrestling matches are a rite of passage for young boys among the Kaba people of Chad. Dancing precedes the event. The wrestlers have already colored their bodies red and have donned the traditional goatskin. The boys wrestle in pairs while girls dance around the athletes and encourage them.
Legacy Keywords: Sudan ; Central Sudan, Middle Chari ; Africa; Kaba


title: "Journey to Africa"

content: Sharpstone, David Collier

indexedContent: Sharpstone, David Collier

content: Smith, Lance Bales

indexedContent: Smith, Lance Bales

content: David Collier Sharpstone films

indexedContent: David Collier Sharpstone films

content: David Collier Sharpstone films / "Journey to Africa"

content: We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Alexandra Sharpstone, who provided much of the descriptive information in this finding aid.

content: 2 Film reels (silent color reversal; 870 feet, 16mm)

content: undated

content: Item 2000.6.2-1

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Film reels

content: The David Collier Sharpstone films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
This film footage was shot in London (UK), Rome (Italy), Entebbe (Uganda), Tororo, Owen Falls Power Development, and Kilembe Mine (Uganda).

Main title: "Journey to Africa" "by Lance Smith".

A description of the scene follows the intertitles in square brackets.

First Roll Intertitles

"New York to London by Stratocruiser" [a BOAC Stratocruiser, airborne; filming from the windows of the plane; interior shots of the plane with Alfred Pugsley, a female traveling companion, and a stewardess; aerial views including a coastline; and landing]

"London" [static shots of primarily buildings, monuments, the Thames, a military parade, a park, and bombed out World War II ruins]

"London to Entebbe by Hermes" [BOAC plane, aerial views including a coastline]

"Roma" [aerial view of Rome from the plane and while the plane is landing]

"Owen Falls Power Development" [shot of the Owen Falls Dam]

"Owen Falls Dam" [panoramic views of the dam and shoreline, people crossing over the dam on a bridge, African men bathing along the shoreline, ongoing construction, Alfred Pugsley examining a coffee plant, and an African woman posing in front of her mud hut]

"En Route to Kilembe" [aerial shots of the countryside and herds of elephants, Mount Kilimanjaro, and more elephant herds]

"Kilembe Mine" [the mine and its buildings, housing for African miners, a view of the mine from the hillside, African thatched rondavels, a small waterfall, a vehicle traveling along a road carved out of the mountainside, an African navigating the roadway, red soil, a river going towards Lake George, miners and a white man crossing a suspension bridge, equipment moving earth, ants, and skins curing]

unittitle: David Collier Sharpstone films

unittitle: "Journey to Africa"

title: "Journey to Africa"


title: John W. Rowe's Travel Footage: Colorado

label: Local Number

content: HSFA 1997.10.4

content: Rowe, John W.

indexedContent: Rowe, John W.

content: Rowe, Mariella

indexedContent: Rowe, Mariella

content: John and Mariella Rowe films

indexedContent: John and Mariella Rowe films

content: 1 Film reel (color silent; 800 feet, 16mm)

flag: datechar:creation type:inclusive

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: John and Mariella Rowe films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Edited film is an amateur travel film of a trip to Aspen, Colorado and the area. Scenes include travelling by car on snow covered roads, plowing of snow covered roads, mountain scenery, downhill skiing, visit with Stuart Mace and his huskies, travelling in mountains by dogsled, wildlife including bighorn sheep and antelope.

unittitle: John and Mariella Rowe films

unittitle: John W. Rowe's Travel Footage: Colorado

title: John W. Rowe's Travel Footage: Colorado


title: Grass

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1990.3.4

content: Higbee, Edward Converse

indexedContent: Higbee, Edward Converse

content: Edward Higbee films

indexedContent: Edward Higbee films

content: Film reels (20 minutes, black-and-white silent; 388 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Edward Higbee films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Abridged edited version of the theatrical release for home sale. Film documents the yearly migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of southern Iran through the mountains to summer pastures for their herds. Kellerman, Maurice filmmaker.

unittitle: Edward Higbee films

unittitle: Grass

title: Grass


title: Mehalla

content: Local Number: HSFA 1994.19.24

label: Collection Film distributor

content: Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services

content: Penn State educational film collection

indexedContent: Penn State educational film collection

content: 1 Film reel (6 minutes, black-and-white sound; 220 feet, 16mm)

content: circa 1950

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Penn State educational film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film produced by the Hamilton Wright Organization of New York City with help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo describes life in the industrial community of Mehalla al Cobra (Egypt), the self-described "workman's paradise." Shown are Mehalla's large textile (cotton and wool) mills, worker's housing, schools for millworkers' children and worker recreation activities.

Legacy Keywords:  South America ; Egypt

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Penn State educational film collection

unittitle: Mehalla

title: Mehalla


title: Asan Tol Project

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1989.5.1 - 1a

content: Lewis, Todd, 1952-

indexedContent: Lewis, Todd, 1952-

content: Todd Lewis films of Asan Tol

indexedContent: Todd Lewis films of Asan Tol

content: Video recordings (color sound)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Video recordings

indexedContent: Video recordings

content: Todd Lewis films of Asan Tol, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Full video record is a documentation project of a day in the life of Asan Tol, a central marketplace/bazaar in Kathmandu which is important both as a hub for economic transactions and a focal point in the religious geography of the Kathmandu Valley. Shots taken on the hour throughout the day showing the changing patterns of street traffic in the bazaar, interaction of pedestrians and "day sellers" (vendors), the perambulations of cows "grazing" in the urban ecology and devotional touching of the cows by Hindu passerbys; circumambulations of people making devotions as the Buddhist temple of Annapurna; rickshaw drivers making their way through the square; bearers carrying various loads.

Legacy Keywords: Ritual devotions Temple of Annapurna ; Bazaar markets ; Streets social interaction in Kathmandu ; Transportation rickshaws peddie cabs ; Markets Asan Tol Kathmandu ; Temples Annapurna Newar Buddhism ; Cattle cows devotional behaviors towards ; Flowers vendors of Kathmandu ; Shrines mobile Ratha Kathmandu ; Religion ritual devotion Bodhisattva Kathmandu ; Crowds bazaars social interaction Kathmandu ; Architecture religious Buddhism Hinduism Kathmandu ; Ecology urban interaction within Kathmandu ; Language and culture

Video camera: Brian Hollander

unittitle: Todd Lewis films of Asan Tol

unittitle: Asan Tol Project

title: Asan Tol Project


title: Some More Samoa

content: HSFA 1990.7.7

label: Collection Collector

content: Oregon Historical Society

indexedContent: Oregon Historical Society

content: Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee

content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 304 feet)

content: circa 1918

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Oregon Historical Society's Robert McCoy films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Incomplete edited film is a Chester Outing Picture made in cooperation with "Outing, the Great Outdoor Magazine." Shots include kava drinking; dressing for dance; dances, including a Fijian dance performed by Fijians; and making of bark cloth and mats.

unittitle: Some More Samoa

title: Some More Samoa


title: Malekula (1975.1.1 - 2)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.1 - 2

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

indexedContent: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 1: Malekula films

content: 1 Film reel (17 minutes, color silent; 600 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Footage shot in the Lendombwey region of south central Malekula in 1970 among the Nambas. Documented are activities within the ceremonial ground. These include: shots of the ceremonial enclosure including large standing slit gong (ambulgai) and smaller drums (irugumbai); men making sand drawings; males in ceremonial dress; detailed footage showing the construction of the funerary effigies or "marionettes" known as temes nevimbur. Close-up shots of the red clay and vegetal fiber materials used to sculpt the effigies as they are made by two men in a special enclosure adjacent to the men's hut.

content:
Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Some of this material contains sensitive content and is not available for access. Please contact the repository for more information.

unittitle: Malekula films

title: Malekula (1975.1.1 - 2)


title: Malekula (1975.1.1 - 17)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.1 - 17

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

indexedContent: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 1: Malekula films

content: 1 Film reel (color silent; 509 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Footage shot in the Lendombwey region of south central during 1974 among the Nambas. Footage includes scenes of male and female ceremonial dancing in the Namba ceremonial ground; women dancing in a line with special staffs of nargai leaves; men dancing around the central slit gong in full ceremonial dress ornamented with leaves, feathers, multicolored waist bands, facial paint, bows and arrows; various perambulations around the central part of dance ground adjacent to lean-to where slit gongs are kept; shots of male dancer entering the ceremonial ground with pig on his shoulders, dancing; yams (tied in bundles of three and four being unloaded from platform on one side of dance ground; ritual drama of puppet theater--shots of the temes nevimbur effigies decorated with plumage headdresses dancing behind puppet stage.

title: Malekula (1975.1.1 - 17)


title: Huichol Film Project (1989.3.1-9)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1989.3.1-9

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films of Jalisco

indexedContent: Kal Muller films of Jalisco

content: Kal Muller films of Jalisco / Huichol Film Project (1989.3.1)

content: 1 Film reel (color silent; 385 feet, 16mm)

content: Summer 1974

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Kal Muller films of Jalisco, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Footage by Kalman Muller of Huichol peyoteros clearing a corn field and participating in an Easter week ceremony. Features makeup used by peyoteros, traditional costumes, scenes of rural settlement, and a religious procession.

unittitle: Kal Muller films of Jalisco

unittitle: Huichol Film Project (1989.3.1)

unittitle: Huichol Film Project (1989.3.1-9)

title: Huichol Film Project (1989.3.1-9)


title: Slide roll #105

content: Local numbers: NEW HEB 1971 KM EKTA #105

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 5: Vanuatu slides / 5.22: Vanuatu slides

content: 29 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: January 1972

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

indexedContent: Slides (photographs)

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content: Some of this material contains sensitive content and is not available for access. Please contact the repository for more information.

unittitle: Vanuatu slides

unittitle: Slide roll #105

title: Slide roll #105


title: Slide roll #116

content: Local numbers: NEW HEB 1970 KM KODA #116

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 5: Vanuatu slides / 5.15: Vanuatu slides

content: 31 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: October 1970

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

unittitle: Slide roll #116

title: Slide roll #116


title: Slide roll #29

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2-29 OP; Slide box KR2-29

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 6: Tanna Island slides / 6.3: Tanna Island slides

content: 38 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: August 1974

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

content: Slide photographs (transparencies) shot on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, Lendombwey village, as part of film project led by Kalman Muller. Slides show man with child, portrait of old chief wearing the Huichol necklace, anthropologist showing her leg, and family walking to fields and planting taro. (From Muller's notes)

unittitle: Tanna Island slides

unittitle: Slide roll #29

title: Slide roll #29


title: Gypsies Sing Long Ballads

content: HSFA 1993.20.10

content: Cohen, John, 1932-2019

indexedContent: Cohen, John

content: John Cohen films

indexedContent: John Cohen films

content: Film reels (color sound; 1080 feet)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: John Cohen films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Edited film presents traditional music of gypsies who travel throughout Scotland. Film focuses on the long unaccompanied British ballads that date back hundreds of years and are passed on through memory to each new generation.

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: John Cohen films

unittitle: Gypsies Sing Long Ballads

title: Gypsies Sing Long Ballads


title: Central Asia, Nepal (Tibetans) -- Spinning and Dyeing Wool

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.375; E00707

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film: in a Tibetan refugee camp in Katmandu, women and girls arrange, card, spin, and dye wool.
Legacy Keywords: Nepal ; Central Asia, Nepal ; Asia; Tibetans


title: Sons of Haji Omar

label: Local Numbers

content: HSFA 1981.5.2/2017.1.2

content: 2 Film reels (58 minutes, color sound; 2,100 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: National Human Studies Film Center collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film produced by the National Film Board of Canada from the joint Film Board and Smithsonian Institution filming expedition which documented life among the Pashtoon (Pakhtun) nomads of northeastern Afghanistan. The narrative centers on Haji Omar, the patriarch of a wealthy settled nomad family living near the market town of Nahrin with focus on pastoral activities during the annual migration from the steepe near Baghlan to mountain pastures in Hindu Kush and family conflicts related to economic diversification of Haji Omar's sons. Included are scenes of life in the bazaar, dealings with government officials, and local rivalries as expressed through the central Asian sport of buzkashi.

Credits: Asch, Timothy 1932-1994 ; Balikci, Asen, 1929- ; Asch, Patsy

unittitle: Sons of Haji Omar

title: Sons of Haji Omar


title: Miscellaneous (II)

label: Collection Director

content: Porterfield, Jeanne

indexedContent: Porterfield, Jeanne

content: Chickering, Lisa

indexedContent: Chickering, Lisa

content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 9: Photographs / 9.3: Travel photography / 9.3.2: Travel slide collection / International:

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1967/2001 type:inclusive

label: Container

content: Box 87-88

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: HSFA.2015.16, File 2015.16.1-120 OP

content: Archival materials

content: Slide sheet

indexedContent: Slide sheet

content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content: Stacks, chairs, mailboxes, cemeteries, cards

content: The Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the National Anthropological Film Collection may not be played.

unittitle: Photographs

unittitle: Travel photography

unittitle: Travel slide collection

unittitle: International:

unittitle: Miscellaneous (II)

title: Miscellaneous (II)


title: 1972 [S-T]

label: Collection Creator

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 4: Correspondence

label: Sponsor

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Box 8

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and the digital books.

Access to the Jorge Prelorán collection requires an appointment.

unittitle: Jorge Prelorán films

unittitle: Correspondence

title: 1972 [S-T]


title: AUFS Afghanistan Film Project

label: General

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 3

content: American University (Washington, D.C.)

indexedContent: American University (Washington, D.C.)

content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-

indexedContent: Miller, Norman N., 1933-

label: See more items in

content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel (52 minutes, one film reel (1,841 feet) assembled film rolls 4 (camera rolls 7,8) and 5 (camera rolls 9,10), 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan by the American Universities Field Staff for a series on the nomadic Maldar tribe. Shots include: an interview sequence with Afghan men drinking tea and reclining in a house; a man playing a flute following the interview; goats being herded into a domestic compound; herders descending steep mountain slopes with their cattle; herder drawing water from a subterranean cistern and watering his cattle and goats; scenes at a mountain threshing floor where wheat is prepared for threshing; man tethering cattle together and driving them around the floor to thresh the wheat; juxtaposed scenes of men herding goats; harvesting wheat, and working at the threshing floor.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Crops agriculture wheat Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Wheat method of harvesting Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Work groups harvesting Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Threshing wheat use of cattle in Afghanistan ; Tools sickles use of in harvesting Afghanistan ; Cisterns used for watering herds Afghanistan ; Herders cattle goats Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Accession 1975-002

unittitle: AUFS Afghanistan Film Project

title: AUFS Afghanistan Film Project


title: [DER Staff, 1980's and 1990's]

label: Collection Collaborator

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

indexedContent: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

indexedContent: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

indexedContent: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

indexedContent: Asch, Timothy

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

indexedContent: Marshall, John

content: Marshall, Lorna

indexedContent: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 12: Photographs

content: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

content: 5 Prints (visual works)

label: Date

content: Box 2

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Photographs

indexedContent: Photographs

content: Prints (visual works)

indexedContent: Prints (visual works)

content: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.

content:
The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings.  Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

unittitle: [DER Staff, 1980's and 1990's]

title: [DER Staff, 1980's and 1990's]


title: AUFS Afghanistan Film Project

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 28

content: American University (Washington, D.C.)

indexedContent: American University (Washington, D.C.)

content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-

indexedContent: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002

content: 2 Film reels (42 minutes, two film reels (1,488 feet) assembled film rolls 49 (camera rolls 97,98) and 50 (camera rolls 99-102), 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

label: Collection Citation

label: Collection Rights

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: men cooking on traditional mud-brick ovens next to market stalls; blacksmith and ironworker at anvil/forge; shoemaker at work; barber shaving a man's head; man and boy crossing river with donkey; irrigation works and channeling of water to gardens from river; boys swimming in river rapids; walled paths around the village; shops and cloth merchant; tinker at work; long-range shots of the valley and mountains surrounding village.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Markets shops Afghanistan ; Blacksmiths Afghanistan ; Leatherworker shoe repair Afghanistan ; Barbers shaving Afghanistan ; Markets Afghanistan ; Irrigation gardens Afghanistan ; Crafts tinker tinsmith Afghanistan ; Cooking ovens Afghanistan ; Ovens mudbrick Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980

title: AUFS Afghanistan Film Project


title: Walter Goetz World Travel Film Footage: New England

content: Goetz, Walter, 1930-2018

indexedContent: Goetz, Walter

content: Walter Goetz films

indexedContent: Walter Goetz films

content: 1 Film reel (color silent reversal; 200 feet, Super 8mm)

content: Item 2019.2.20

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Film reels

content: The Walter Goetz films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Collection Restrictions

unittitle: Walter Goetz films


title: [Marshall Expedition IV]

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

content: Marshall, Lorna

indexedContent: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 12: Photographs

content: 19 Slides (photographs) (copy slides)

content: Box 1

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides

indexedContent: Slides

content: Slides (photographs)

indexedContent: Slides (photographs)

label: Rights

content: Copyright held by Harvard Peabody Museum

unittitle: [Marshall Expedition IV]

title: [Marshall Expedition IV]


title: Ancient Cities of the Southwest

content: Pond, Alonzo W. (Alonzo William), 1894-1986

indexedContent: Pond, Alonzo W. (Alonzo William)

content: Beloit College

indexedContent: Beloit College

content: Pond, Dorothy L.

indexedContent: Pond, Dorothy L.

content: Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection / Series 1: Films / Ancient Cities of the Southwest

content: Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.

content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; 300 feet, 35mm)

content: circa 1930

content: Item 1982.5.5-1

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

content: Film reels

content: The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

unittitle: Films

unittitle: Ancient Cities of the Southwest

title: Ancient Cities of the Southwest


title: Thailand, Chieng Rai Province (Akha) -- Spinning Cotton

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.387; E01243

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Scope and Contents

content:
Edited film: a woman demonstrates the process of spinning raw cotton into thread by using a hand spindle.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Chieng Rai Province ; Asia; Akha

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.


level: series

title: The Fountains of Paradise (Outtakes)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2012.5.4

content: Nichols, Sandra

indexedContent: Nichols, Sandra

content: Sandra Nichols collection

indexedContent: Sandra Nichols collection

content: 50 Film reels (color sound; 38,000 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Outtakes from an edited film project documenting plans in Sri Lanka for the Mahaweli River irrigation project and the economic, social and environmental costs that would likely follow.

Legacy Keywords: Economic development ; Irrigation ; Water-power ; Agriculture ; Environmental engineering ; Rivers ; Language and culture

unittitle: Sandra Nichols collection

unittitle: The Fountains of Paradise (Outtakes)

title: The Fountains of Paradise (Outtakes)


title: Central Europe, Upper Hesse -- Putting on the Mardorf Festival Costume

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.592; E00373

indexedContent: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: a farm girl from Mardorf prepares the traditional costume of the village, including the linen shirt, bodice, skirt, stockings, shoes, scarf, and kerchief. Young adults of well-established families usually wear costumes handed down from previous generations.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Upper Hesse ; Europe


title: Central Europe, Tyrol -- Making a Bread Cutter

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.485; E01088

indexedContent: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (13 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: no further description available.
Legacy Keywords: Austria ; Central Europe, Tyrol ; Europe


title: Central Europe, Baden -- Fishing with a Fish Trap at Weisweil

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.525; E01558

content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: a fisherman sets a homemade nylon fish trap in a tributary of the Rhine River, then camouflages the area with reeds. At a another spot he empties a trap and resets it.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Baden ; Europe

unittitle: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection


title: Central Sudan, Southern Wadai (Diongor) -- Baking Millet Flat Cakes

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.232; E00959

content: 1 Film reel (15 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: only a few women among the Diongor in Chad are skilled in making millet flat cakes, which are made exclusively from Pennisetum. These cakes are generally made for sale; only the unsold will be eaten by the people themselves, for flat cakes are considered a fancy dish. The entire process of making these cakes is shown here.
Legacy Keywords: Sudan ; Central Sudan, Southern Wadai ; Africa; Diongor


title: West Africa, Ivory Coast (Baule) -- Making and Playing a Transom Xylophone

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.95; E01533

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (13 minutes, black-and-white sound, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: occasionally the Baule build simple xylophones for entertainment. Pieces of a small tree are placed upon two logs and tuning is done by precise cutting of the wood. Two musicians sit across from one another and start to play, each one with a different part.
Legacy Keywords: Ivory Coast ; West Africa, Ivory Coast ; Africa; Baule


title: Central Europe, Rhineland -- Making a Clay Threshing Floor

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.571; E00728

content: 1 Film reel (20 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film: after the old and damaged threshing floor has been removed, three men fill the recess with fresh clay and moisten it with water. Cattle are driven over the doughy mass in order to knead the material. A village youth stamps down the clay by playing hopscotch on it in his bare feet. After men work with special tools to further prepare the floor, it is flattened with a smoothing board.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Rhineland ; Europe

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Black Lahu) -- Husking Rice with a Stamping-Mill

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.403; E01240

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (8 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: rice is stamped with a wooden stamping-mill; then the roughly husked grain is winnowed and stamped again with a larger pestle.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Black Lahu


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Miao) -- Top Spinning Game: "Tau du lu"

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.431; E01295

content: 1 Film reel (2 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: one or two tops are placed in motion on the ground. The object of the game is to knock them down with other tops. Whoever succeeds is the winner.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Miao


title: Central Europe, Bavaria -- Pilgrimage with a Candle at Bogen

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.534; E01928

content: 1 Film reel (32 minutes, color sound, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: shows excerpts from the pilgrimage along the Danube River from Holzkirchen near Vilshofen to the Bogenberg northeast of Straubing. A symbolic "candle" -- a pine tree trunk striped with red wax -- is carried the length of this 70 km trek.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Bavaria ; Europe


title: Africa

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.27 - 3

content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980

indexedContent: Boulton, Laura

content: Laura Boulton films

indexedContent: Laura Boulton films

content: Film reels (16mm)

content: circa 1947

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Laura Boulton films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Film footage shot in South West Africa as part of a 1947 University of California expedition to Ovamboland. Shots include Ovambo village scenes; homesteads and domestic scenes; panoptic shots of herders (unidentified); staged shots of school children singing and dancing at a colonial school.

Legacy Keywords: Houses circular thatched South West Africa ; Herding cattle Ovambo South West Africa ; Singing children Ovambo South West Africa ; Schools South West Africa ; Colonialism South West Africa ; Dancing children schools South West Africa ; Language and culture

unittitle: Laura Boulton films

unittitle: Africa

title: Africa


title: Sonidos - Remate-Trilla Maximo (65)

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 3: Audio / 3.2: Miscellaneous Audio Recordings

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

content: 1 Sound tape reel (¼" tape)

content: Item 2007.10.117-014

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Audio

indexedContent: Audio

content: Sound tape reels

indexedContent: Sound tape reels

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

label: Series Restrictions

content: Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Audio

unittitle: Miscellaneous Audio Recordings

unittitle: Sonidos - Remate-Trilla Maximo (65)

title: Sonidos - Remate-Trilla Maximo (65)


content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

content: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 4: Correspondence

content: 2 Folders

content: Box 16

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and the digital books.

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unittitle: Jorge Prelorán films


level: subseries

title: Paper records

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

content: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 10: "Nos = Otros"

content: undated

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Identifier

content: HSFA.2007.10, Subseries 10.1

content: Archival materials

content: The paper records are part of accession 2007.10.

unitid: Collection 10.1

unitid: Series 10.1

unittitle: "Nos = Otros"

unitid: Subseries 10.1

unittitle: Paper records

title: Paper records


title:
1 map, "16 Safari Maps of East Africa's National Parks & Game
Reserves" [published by Shell Oil; circa 1961-1964]

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

indexedContent: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

indexedContent: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

indexedContent: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

indexedContent: Asch, Timothy

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

indexedContent: Marshall, John

content: Marshall, Lorna

indexedContent: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 13: Maps and Kinship diagrams

content: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

content: circa 1961-1964

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: HSFA.1983.11, Item 2008.10.76

content: Archival materials

content: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.

content:
The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings.  Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

unitid: Collection 2008.10.76

unittitle: Maps and Kinship diagrams


title: Unpublished Films And Videos

content: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

content: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection

content: circa 1965

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: HSFA.1983.11, Series 3

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content:
This series contains 29 edited, partially edited, or assembled films and videos that were
never released and/or never completed. Some of these items are early or alternate versions
of published titles found in Series 2; they contain information not found in the published
titles and provide insight into Marshall's filmmaking. Some of the items were edited at the
Film Study Center, Harvard University between 1959 and 1962; some were used by
Timothy and Patsy Asch in the development of the MACOS (Man, A Course of Study) project around 1965.

Each description below includes: HSFA film number, title, total film footage in feet (if
applicable), total running time, and description of the original film or video. All film is
16mm; video is in various formats, as noted. As yet, there is no preservation film or audio
for these materials, and except for one title, there are no reference copies.

SUBSERIES: FULLY PRODUCED
Includes unpublished titles that have pre-print film elements, titles and/or a mixed
soundtrack.

SUBSERIES: EDITED OR ASSEMBLED
Includes edits or assemblies on that do not qualify as "fully produced".

unitid: Collection 3

unitid: Series 3

unittitle: Unpublished Films And Videos

title: Unpublished Films And Videos


title: Pentecost Island (1975.1.3-1)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.3-1

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

indexedContent: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 3: Pentecost Island films

content: 1 Film reel (23 minutes, color silent; 837 feet, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content: Footage shot on Pentecost Island during 1971 among the Bunlap.  Shots include: a native affixing penis sheath and waist band; a man demonstrating the technique of decorating and dying a woven armband using native materials. Men cutting vines with machetes to be used by "land divers" who dive from hundred foot towers as part of the Bunlap annual ceremonies; various close-up and mid-range shots of the tower and divers, techniques by which vines are tied to the diver's ankles, the narrow platforms from which men dive, the effigies placed at the base of the tower; various angled shots of men diving from their perches; close-up shots of the perches, their construction, and the workings by which they absorb the energy of the plunging diver, views of spectators below; shots from the tower of a dance sequence beneath the tower performed by women in ceremonial dress. The edited film, THE LAND DIVERS OF MELANESIA, was produced from this footage.

content:
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unittitle: Pentecost Island films

unittitle: Pentecost Island (1975.1.3-1)

title: Pentecost Island (1975.1.3-1)


title: Slide roll #57

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2-57 OP; Slide box EH3-57

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 6: Tanna Island slides / 6.4: Tanna Island slides

content: 37 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: September 1974

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

indexedContent: Slides (photographs)

content: Slide photographs (transparencies) shot on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, Leloalu, as part of film project led by Kalman Muller. Slides show men preparing for toka rehearsal, men rehearsing dance for toka ceremony.

label: Subseries Restrictions

content: Some of this material contains sensitive content and is not available for access. Please contact the repository for more information.

unittitle: Tanna Island slides

unittitle: Slide roll #57

title: Slide roll #57


title: Acoma Pueblo

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2014.9.4

label: Collection Creator

content: Seymour, Thomas Hartley

indexedContent: Seymour, Thomas Hartley

content: Thomas Seymour films

indexedContent: Thomas Seymour films

content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, black-and-white silent; 177 feet, 16mm)

content: circa 1926

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Thomas Seymour films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film record shot in New Mexico, depicting the architectural features and residents of Acoma Pueblo. Footage focuses on adobe structures and includes both close and long shots of local men and women in front of these buildings, both at leisure and performing chores. Architectural footage focuses particularly on the San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church. Two intertitles address brief history of pueblo and church.

Supplementary materials: annotation

Architecture New Mexico ; Church architecture

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unittitle: Thomas Seymour films

unittitle: Acoma Pueblo

title: Acoma Pueblo


title: Where the River enters the Sea

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.128

content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1,008 feet, 16mm)

content: circa 1971

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Matanuska-Susitna School District educational film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content: Edited film shows the Eskimo residents of a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle as they struggle with modernization. The film shows the opportunities as well as the cultural challenges that this change has brought.

unittitle: Where the River enters the Sea

title: Where the River enters the Sea


title: [Marshall !Kung Video Project]

content: McElwee, Ross

indexedContent: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

indexedContent: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

indexedContent: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

indexedContent: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

content: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects

label: Sponsor

content: Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

content: Videocassettes (sound, color Betacam SP, PAL Betacam SP and Hi-8; 57.5 hours)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: HSFA.1983.11, File 2005.11.13

content: Archival materials

content: Videocassettes

indexedContent: Videocassettes

content: The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.

label: 2005.11.13 shot log pdf

content:
Subjects include: LIFE program and USAID involvement; NNFC and NNDFN meetings
and activities; village visits, discuss NNDFN management; interviews with Ju/'hoansi,
NNDFN staff, development workers; agricultural activities; daily life. Footage shot by
Peter Baker; additional photography by Richard Pakleppa.

content:
The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings.  Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

unitid: Collection 2005.11.13

unittitle: Unedited Film and Video Projects

unittitle: [Marshall !Kung Video Project]

title: [Marshall !Kung Video Project]


title: 1972 [K-L]

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

label: See more items in

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 4: Correspondence

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

label: Container

content: Box 7

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content: Includes Lorenzo Kelly and Alan Lomax.

content:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and the digital books.

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unittitle: Correspondence

title: 1972 [K-L]


title: Correspondence

label: Collection Director

content: Porterfield, Jeanne

indexedContent: Porterfield, Jeanne

content: Chickering, Lisa

indexedContent: Chickering, Lisa

label: Extent

content: 0.32 Linear feet

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1954/2015 type:inclusive

content: undated

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:2015/2015 type:inclusive

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:2000/2000 type:inclusive

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1957/1992 type:inclusive

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: HSFA.2015.16, Series 6

content: Archival materials

content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Series 6 consists of correspondence from 1957-1992, 2000, 2015, and undated. Assorted incoming correspondence is largely with corporate sponsors and local hosts and pertains to film screenings and presentation reviews. There is also extensive correspondence between both Chickering and Porterfield with Porterfield's mother, Virginia Hobart, and her husband Phillip, which discusses filming in Austria and the Caribbean, their screenings, and their travels more generally.

Correspondence is arranged chronologically. Photographs associated with letters were not separated and may be found through this series, with unassociated photographs at end of series. Duplicates exist between this series (originally found loose) and the folders of book source material in series 3.1.

content: The Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the National Anthropological Film Collection may not be played.

unitid: Collection 6

unitid: Series 6

title: Correspondence


title: [Interview with Jane Collings, annotated]

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

content: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 6: Project Files

content: 2 Folders

label: Date

content: 2004 April-May

content: Box 2

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Text of transcribed interview of Jorge Prelorán, conducted by Jane Collings. Includes hand-written notes and corrections that appear to be Prelorán's.

unittitle: Project Files


title: The Economic Impact of Desertification in Northern Communal Areas: Uukwaluudhi

label: Collection Collaborator

content: McElwee, Ross

content: Blitz, Daniel

content: Bishop, John Melville

content: Baker, Peter

content: Ritchie, Claire

indexedContent: Ritchie, Claire

content: Young, Robert

indexedContent: Young, Robert

content: Terry, John

indexedContent: Terry, John

content: Galvin, Frank

indexedContent: Galvin, Frank

content: Bestall, Clifford

indexedContent: Bestall, Clifford

content: Gardner, Robert

indexedContent: Gardner, Robert

content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994

indexedContent: Asch, Timothy

content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005

indexedContent: Marshall, John

content: Marshall, Lorna

indexedContent: Marshall, Lorna

content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 8: Nyae Nyae Development Foundation & Advocacy Files

content: circa 1995

content: Box 4

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: Text

indexedContent: Text

label: Collection Citation


title: Our First History

label: Local Numbers

content: HSFA 2013.3.1

label: Place

content: Ecuador

indexedContent: Ecuador

content: South America

indexedContent: South America

label: Topic

content: Archaeology

indexedContent: Archaeology

label: Provenance

content: Received from the National Anthropological Archives in 2013.

content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1,200 feet, 16mm)

content: circa 1970

label: Custodial History

content: From the Paulina Ledergerber papers in the National Anthropological Archives. Film print was donated to the Anthropology Dept according to paper on cover of film shipper.

content: Human Studies Film Archives

indexedContent: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Collection descriptions

indexedContent: Collection descriptions

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

label: Citation

content: Our First History, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Rights

content:
Edited film about what archeology in Ecuador shows about that country's early history.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

label: Restrictions

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.

unitid: Collection HSFA.2013.03

unittitle: Our First History

title: Our First History


title: Brown ink

content: Porterfield, Jeanne

indexedContent: Porterfield, Jeanne

content: Chickering, Lisa

indexedContent: Chickering, Lisa

label: See more items in

content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 3: Writings / 3.1: Book materials / Behind the Travel Picture: / Manuscript packages:

content: undated

content: Box 4

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

label: Collection Rights

label: Collection Restrictions

unittitle: Writings

unittitle: Book materials

unittitle: Behind the Travel Picture:

unittitle: Manuscript packages:

unittitle: Brown ink

title: Brown ink


title: West Africa, Upper Volta (Mossi) -- Brass Casting with the Lost-Wax Method

label: General

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.20; E00160

label: Collection Creator

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Scope and Contents

content:
Edited film: shows the production of small figures using the lost-wax method. Wax models are shaped and covered with damp clay. After the clay has dried the models are fired, which melts the wax away. Previously smelted metal is poured into the remaining cavity of the mold. After cooling, the form is destroyed and the molded figure is decorated with enamel paint.
Legacy Keywords: Burkino Faso ; West Africa, Upper Volta ; Africa; Mossi


title: Iran, Hamadan (Persia) -- Draw Well

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.683; E00251

indexedContent: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (2 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

label: Date

label: Archival Repository

content: Human Studies Film Archives

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: persian farmers obtain water from the depths of the Ghanat System with the aid of a draw well. Horses are used as draft animals. The technique of the winch and rope system is illustrated.
Legacy Keywords: Iran ; Iran, Hamadan ; Middle East; Persia

unittitle: Iran, Hamadan (Persia) -- Draw Well

title: Iran, Hamadan (Persia) -- Draw Well


title: Central Europe, Holstein -- Tilting at the Ring and Roland-Rides at Marner-Neuenkoogsdeich

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.552; E01159

indexedContent: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

label: Collection Citation

content:
Edited film: this annual competition takes place in July in Marner-Neuenkoogsdeich, when fields between the homes become the sporting area for the two riding games. Halfway down the field, rings hang above the raceway, and riders are encouraged to try to catch them. At the end of the field a "Roland" figure with an outstretched arm is set up; the players ride past the figure in order to hit it and turn the "Roland" around. The best "Roland" rider and the best ring catcher are determined at the end of the game.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Holstein ; Europe


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Miao) -- Saddling a Pack Horse

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.426; E01279

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: the pack saddle is laid on the animal's rump and secured. Two wicker baskets are tied to a carrying frame, which is then lifted onto the saddle.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Miao

unittitle: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection


title: Brazil, Upper Juruena (Erigpactsa) -- Making a Bark Fiber Apron

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.891; E00732

content: 1 Film reel (6 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: strips of palm bast are cut to equal lengths and finely spliced in bunches. These bunches are laid close together on a cord which an Indian ties around his waist.
Legacy Keywords: Brazil ; Brazil, Upper Juruena ; South America; Erigpactsa


title: West Africa, Upper Volta (Senufo) -- Smelting Bog Iron Ore

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.28; E00197

content: 1 Film reel (9 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: this blacksmith operation not only forges iron (E00191), it also handles the smelting of iron ore. Each step of the smelting process is shown including the feeding of the fire with charcoal and ore. When a test shows that the smelting has ended, the oven is broken open and the glowing mass removed.
Legacy Keywords: Burkino Faso ; West Africa, Upper Volta ; Africa; Senufo


title: West Asia, South Iraq (Ma'dan Arabs) -- Sign Language

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.688; E00182

content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: demonstrates the sign language used by the Ma'dan who live in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Shows scenes of gestures used during a conversation and individual signs as well.
Legacy Keywords: Iraq ; West Asia, South Iraq ; Middle East; Ma'dan Arabs

content: The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.


title: Central Europe, Schleswig -- Making Shoes Out of Plaited Rushes

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.580; E00545

content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)

content: 1 Film reel (10 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

content:
Edited film: dried rushes (Scirpus lacustris) are plaited into a strong three-strand braid (for the sole) and a small six-strand braid (for the shoe top). These braids are wound into position and are sewn together.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Schleswig ; Europe


title: Brazil, Araguaia Region (Javahe) -- "Aruano" Mask Dances

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.900; E00443

content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection

content: 1 Film reel (20 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

content:
Edited film: in the village of Jatoba, the summer huts are located a short distance away from the mask-house. Food is prepared elsewhere and brought to the young men who live in the mask-house. At certain times, the men don mask-dresses, dance toward the village, then return to the mask-house.
Legacy Keywords: Brazil ; Brazil, Araguaia Region ; South America; Javahe


title: West Europe, France -- Search For Truffles with the Aid of Pigs

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.514; E01876

content: 1 Film reel (4 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: during the truffle season from December to February in southern France, pigs are used to locate underground truffles by scent. To prevent the pig from eating the delicacies, the caveur offers another food reward and digs the truffles out himself. Sometimes the pig is also diverted with a blow by a stick so that a partial deconditioning may occur.
Legacy Keywords: France ; West Europe, France ; Europe


title: New Guinea, Middle Sepik (Aibom) -- Preparation of Pudding (Sago with Coconut)

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.809; E01377

content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: a young man grates coconut meat and pours it into a pot filled with coconut milk. A woman cooks this liquid, stirs sago into the pot, and lets the mixture cook until it becomes stiff enough to eat with a spoon.
Legacy Keywords: Papua New Guinea ; New Guinea, Middle Sepik ; Oceania; Aibom


title: Southeast Europe, Rumania -- Folk Dances "Zaluta" and "Hora Mare" at Vestem

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.666; E01673

content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, black-and-white sound, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

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Edited film: shows performances of the dances Zaluta (little chain ring) and Hora Mare (large circle). A clarinetist accompanies the dancers.
Legacy Keywords: Romania ; Southeast Europe, Rumania ; Europe


title: Brazil, Tocantins Region (Craho) -- Fishing Expedition

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.877; E00435

content: 1 Film reel (17 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: equipped with weapons and the necessary utensils, a group of Craho Indians travels to a river and sets up camp. The men gather liana plants, break them up, and place them into the water to stun the fish. The fish are killed with bow and arrow and are taken to the camp where the women bake the fish over an open fire.
Legacy Keywords: Brazil ; Brazil, Tocantins Region ; South America; Craho


title: Thailand, Tak Province (Black Lahu) -- Weaving Straps for Shoulder Bags

content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.405; E01271

content: 1 Film reel (15 minutes, color silent, 16mm)

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Film reels

content:
Edited film: a small weaving apparatus, which the weaver sits on the ground to use, is put into action to create woven straps.
Legacy Keywords: Thailand ; Thailand, Tak Province ; Asia; Black Lahu

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title: Slide roll #61

content: Local Numbers: Slide box EH1-61

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

indexedContent: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 6: Tanna Island slides / 6.1: Tanna Island slides

content: 33 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: September 1973

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

indexedContent: Slides (photographs)

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Restrictions

content: Some of this material contains sensitive content and is not available for access. Please contact the repository for more information.

unittitle: Tanna Island slides

unittitle: Slide roll #61

title: Slide roll #61


title: Slide roll #35A

content: Local numbers: NEW HEBRIDES 1970 KM KODA #35A

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 5: Vanuatu slides / 5.14: Vanuatu slides

content: 29 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: September 1970

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

unittitle: Vanuatu slides

unittitle: Slide roll #35A

title: Slide roll #35A


title: Slide roll #65A

content: Local numbers: NEW HEBRIDES 1970 KM EKTA #65A

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 5: Vanuatu slides / 5.15: Vanuatu slides

content: 37 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: October 1970

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

content: Contact the repository for terms of use.

unittitle: Slide roll #65A

title: Slide roll #65A


title: Slide roll #133

content: Local numbers: NEW HEB 1972 KM KODA #133

content: Müller, Kal, 1939-

content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 5: Vanuatu slides / 5.23: Vanuatu slides

content: 33 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

content: February 1972

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: Slides (photographs)

unittitle: Slide roll #133

title: Slide roll #133


title: Strand, [Chick]

content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009

indexedContent: Preloran, Jorge

content: Jorge Prelorán films

indexedContent: Jorge Prelorán films

content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 4: Correspondence

label: Sponsor

content: Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

label: Container

content: Box 2

content: Human Studies Film Archives

content: Archival materials

content: The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

content:
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unittitle: Jorge Prelorán films

unittitle: Strand, [Chick]

title: Strand, [Chick]