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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-357B
Length: 41:59
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-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The Song of Ceylon is a 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. Documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. The first...
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Clip #: TFA-247
Length: 42:12
Year: 1914
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1910s
Description:
1914 film written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted completely by the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It tells the story of Motana, the brave son of a chief, who amidst a spiritual journey, battles an evil...
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Clip #: TFA-114A
Length: 55:32
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A safari across Central Africa in Dodge trucks
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Clip #: TFA-319A
Length: 26:37
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The lavish governmental, religious and military ceremonies for Emperor Haile Selassie’s coronation in 1930. While other US and European film crews were present, Burton Holmes was the only cameraman allowed inside the Royal Enclosure. Includes footage of the coronation, various foreign...
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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-144G
Length: 13:51
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tiger hunt through the Malayan Peninsula jungle in the 1930's.
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Clip #: TFA-150G
Length: 21:16
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A nomadic tribe sets up camp and travels through the Moroccan Sahara Desert in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-9A-7
Length: 12:21
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
17:59:29 a parade of natives and their royalty being carried on chairs on poles on men’s’ shoulders. Many people in parade. A royal funeral ??? Many men with a network of poles on their shoulders carry a heavy ornamental tent with people inside. Three men on a bovine statue are carried by...
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