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Clip #: TFA-256A
Length: 42:45
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary about missionary work being done in Brazil and nearby countries. Footage of missionary doctors treating patients infected with the then-fatal skin disease fogo selvagem, locally referred to as Savage Fire." Also contains footage of traditional Indian ways of life, such as barbasco...
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Clip #: TFA-226A
Length: 29:02
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Armand Denis and his son David drive a Dodge Power Wagon through the countries of the Andes Mountains and experience the local culture.
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Clip #: TFA-281A
Length: 28:20
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Two male tourists and a local guide travel through the Amazon in a dugout canoe rigged with a Johnson Outboard Motor on a piranha fishing expedition.
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Clip #: TFA-236B
Length: 10:33
Year: 1941
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Reveals the experiences of a pioneer family on their journey from Illinois to the Mid-western plains. 00:11:37:00 B/W 1941
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Clip #: TFA-194B
Length: 15:26
Year: 1958
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about Peru in the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-217A
Length: 27:40
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of Liberia in the late 1940s
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Clip #: TFA-107C
Length: 28:09
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A farmer and teacher in Williston, North Dakota learns about the benefits of oil drilling when he is propositioned by an oil company who wants to drill on his farm.
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Clip #: MF-6D
Length: 16:48
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Official war department film about the U.S. Armed Forces capture of Rendova Island in the Solomon Islands from the Japanese and importance of readily available medical equipment to help treat injured soldiers.
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Clip #: TFA-300C
Length: 26:00
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A film from the 1930s about the production of rubber by the United States Rubber Company in Sumatra.
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Clip #: TFA-111B
Length: 39:22
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
The building of the Pan American Highway from Nuevo Laredo, New Mexico to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil through Central and South America.
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