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Clip #: TFA-311B
Length: 25:57
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
British documentary that portrays how the construction of the Sennar Dam, part of the Gezira Scheme, transformed the agriculture of the once barren plains and improved the quality of life for the locals.
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Clip #: TFA-304A
Length: 13:17
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Traditional scenes of Tuareg life, including a young man's transition to manhood, wedding festivities and a camel salt caravan through the Sahara.
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Clip #: TFA-387B
Length: 11:33
Year: 1963
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
An educational film about the Nile River in the early 1960s.
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Clip #: TFA-360B
Length: 10:04
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Swampland is drained and cultivated into rice paddies through the Tanjong Karang Irrigation Scheme in Selangor, British Malaya
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Clip #: TFA-335G
Length: 10:40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Nomads set up camp in the Sahara Desert.
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Clip #: TFA-307A
Length: 19:00
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Details the attempts of the French government to guide resolution of conflicts between rival berber tribes in Skoura, Morocco, instruct locals in modern agricultural techniques and create an irrigation canal to bring water to the agricultural land.
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Clip #: TFA-347A
Length: 19:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Julian Bryan film for the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about Bolivia in the 1940s. Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool,...
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Clip #: TFA-302E
Length: 10:34
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The agriculture of Northwestern Mexico, including a modern cotton gin and henequen processing factory.
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Clip #: TFA-306A
Length: 25:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary narrated in Hebrew about the formation of a farming community / kibbutz in the Palestinian desert near the Dead Sea.
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Clip #: TFA-154E
Length: 15:24
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The changing landscape and industrial agriculture of Africa in the 1930's.
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