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Clip #: AD-55-3
Length: 12:24
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
01:04:23:25
Abyssinia Roll 2
Addis Ababa
Man wearing safari hat waving to crowd.
MS Ethiopian trumpeters announcing arrival.
VS Ethiopian musicians playing large bamboo flutes
(traditional culture, Ethiopian music).
PAN row of Ethiopian natives dressed in tribal clothes holding rifles ...
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Clip #: TFA-243A
Length: 15:43
Year: 1942
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Burton Holmes travelogue from the 1930's showing scenes of daily life in Ethiopia and a military parade for Emperor Haile Selassie.
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Clip #: TFA-39D
Length: 8:02
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Starting with the noisy roar of traffic in a big city, rock drilling and noisy steel riveting, the spectator is magically transported to the wilderness, where the moose hunters make a perilous canoe trip through white water rapids, over falls, and with a careful portage over beaver dams. A...
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Clip #: TFA-77E
Length: 13:09
Year: 1946
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A large scale tiger hunt in the Gir forest in India followed by a staged fight to the death between a lion and a tiger
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Clip #: TFA-242B
Length: 46:21
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Commander George Miller Dyott explores the jungles of India on the back of an elephant.
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Clip #: TFA-61C
Length: 25:54
Year: 1934
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Home movies of a trip in 1934 through the South Seas with stops in American Samoa, the Fiji Islands, Australia, New Guinea, Bali, Java and Hawaii
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Clip #: TFA-12-11
Length: 1:58
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
01:01:29 - 01:03:27 >>> Men in river utting things in holes in concrete wall.teams of oxen are used to lift large buckets of water from a deep well. – Some repeat scenes from above. – Potentates leave a temple, enter open carriage drawn by six horses and ride away.
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Clip #: TFA-264C
Length: 15:44
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The children of the Balkan Peninsula, who when not attending school, perform agricultural duties on their family farms, including tending to the animals, picking crops and making traditional Balkan handicrafts.
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Clip #: AD-55-2
Length: 16:49
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Ethiopia footage features footage of Addis Ababa leading up to and during the inauguration of Emperor Haile Selassie I, which took place on November 2nd, 1930. Various foreign diplomats and dignitaries in attendance at the coronation ceremony and walking in processions. Extensive footage of the...
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Clip #: TFA-232O
Length: 4:09
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A Bedouin wedding in the middle of the Sahara Desert in the 1920s.
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