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Clip #: TFA-357A
Length: 33:30
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Martin & Osa Johnson's last film about a trip to Borneo in the 1930s. Show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
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Clip #: TFA-249C
Length: 11:13
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Catching and taming African elephants.
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Clip #: TFA-262A
Length: 24:55
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Publicity film detailing how trains have kept the United States economy going by transporting passengers and freight.
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Clip #: TFA-216A
Length: 26:15
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A journey overland by car and bus from Paris through Germany and the Balkans to Turkey in the late 1930s led by Lawrence Thaw.
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Clip #: TFA-148D
Length: 10:50
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Oxen with driven horizontal wooden water wheel below large tree, CU oxen with large horns between yoke, wheel with cans brings water to trough, CU wooden wheels with wooden gears, spokes and pegs, water spills into pool, agriculture, irrigation in fields, man with hoe, clears path for water in...
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Clip #: TFA-389
Length: 42:08
Year: 1935
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Contains footage from the Johnsons' 1933-1934 Flying Safari, as used in two episodes of the 1952 TV series called Osa Johnson's Big Game Hunt. Early 20th century naturalists and explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson journey across Africa in 1935 in two amphibious airplanes, encountering and filming...
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Clip #: TFA-182B
Length: 9:13
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Hunting the Sladang (an Indian Bison) and Tiger in India in the 1940s
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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-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-121-I
Length: 27:55
Year: 1960
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A tour of the Adirondack region in 1960.
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