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Clip #: TFA-9B-5
Length: 2:56
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:26:48 - 18:31:33 >>> Costumed men dancing to drummer’s beats, MSs, CUs. Burning logs removed from a rectangular ember pile. Men in bare feet walk back and forth thru the hot embers. Men preparing a religious ?? ceremony, CU fire in logs, MSs men. Men walking with loin cloths. Various...
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Clip #: TFA-99A
Length: 8:40
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A compilation of trips made by explorers Martin and Osa Johnson.
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Clip #: TFA-275A
Length: 13:36
Year: 1929
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A Pathé Science Series documentary by Harvard University Dept. of Anthropology from the Peoples and Cultures of the World Series about the Batak peoples of Sumatra.
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Clip #: TFA-201A
Length: 6:23
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A French film about Algeria in the 1930s
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Clip #: TFA-10B-3
Length: 4:18
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
19:40:58 – A village at a beach with western men playing with monkeys as a native boy has a monkey do tricks. Men having their monkeys do tricks. Food vendors at the beach.
19:43:31 - 19:45:16 >>> India. A sign “Happy Christmas†with many westerners at a resort with...
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Clip #: TFA-153B
Length: 8:14
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
An expedition in the 1930's to see the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa, Tibet.
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Clip #: TFA-12-5
Length: 4:14
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
00:39:45 - 00:45:09 >>> PANs palace and gardens, tiger on leash on lawn with men who touch it. CUs young boy in turban and regal costume and young girl in voluminous silks. Men roller skating on tiled terrace, men playing lawn tennis.
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Clip #: AD-29-2
Length: 13:50
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1930 filmed in Ethiopia (Abyssinia), which features footage of Addis Ababa
leading up to the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I (which took place on November 2nd, 1930). Various foreign diplomats and dignitaries paying their respects to the Emperor, including
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Clip #: TFA-10B-10
Length: 12:31
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
20:21:15 - 20:27:10 >>> Singapore. Various, waterway with large hand poled cargo boats loaded high with cargo, women at shore washing clothes, PAN along waterway buildings and boat traffic, a woman pounding flax, women spinning cords. An elephant walks toward cameraman. ...
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Clip #: TFA-77D
Length: 8:11
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A film about the wedding of the son of a high chief of a Samoan island
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