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The Shalako ceremony at Zuni, New Mexico
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 273
Scope and Contents
The Zuni Shalako ceremony is a dramatic presentation by masked men who impersonate kachinas. Kachinas are mythical ancestors of humans; they visit the earth during the winter, but spend the rest of the year in the spirit world. The film begins with scenes showing the impersonators praying, ritually smoking cigarettes, and making prayer sticks (pahos). These activities are performed both individually and as a group. Ultimately they all kneel at a rock shrine in prayer after removing their...
Dates:
1923
The silent enemy
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 275
Scope and Contents
William Douglas Burden, a trustee of the AMNH, hired professional cinematographer Marcel Le Picard to make this film in an effort to show the Ojibwa people as they were before acculturation changed their ways forever. Chief Yellow Robe explains the purpose of the film in a prologue and expresses gratitude for the opportunity to tell the Indians' story. Titles are used through the rest of the story. The story centers around Baluk, a young brave, and the evil medicine man, Dagwan, both of whom...
Dates:
1930
The Snyder East African expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 277
Scope and Contents
The Snyder East African Expedition was sponsored and led by Harry Snyder, sportsman and patron of the AMNH. The staff included George Gilbert Goodwin, AMNH assistant curator of mammals, who also photographed the expedition; John A. Hunter, white hunter; and Colonel A. J. Macnab, President of the Camp Fire Club of America and a firearms expert. They went to collect mammals and to explore territory southwest of the Taita District in Kenya. Geographically, this film contains scenes of the Voi...
Dates:
1938
The Stouts in Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 280
Scope and Contents
Traveling to sites in Kenya, such as the Shima Hills, Tsavo River, Samburu, and Lake Nakuru, Gardner D. Stout, AMNH President from 1968 to 1975, and his wife, Clare, filmed many birds and mammals indigenous to the area. There is extensive, well-photographed footage of the birds and mammals of the region.
Dates:
1972
The Templeton Crocker Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 161
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands, 1933. The objective of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, led by Crocker, was to conduct a preliminary medical, ethnological and natural history survey of the Solomon Islands. This film consists predominantly of ethnographic footage depicting the native clothing, trade, rituals and everyday activities on the various islands. The expedition traveled from island to island in Crocker's ship, the Zaca. The following islands...
Dates:
1933
The time of man
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 281
Scope and Contents
Time of Man ends with AMNH anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro, renowned primatologist and author, posing the question of man's ability to develop a wisdom which will allow him to maintain his environment and survive. The main question being presented here is, "Can man survive?" The film opens with primates in the jungle and cuts to shots of automobiles in crowded cities choked by air pollution. The film presents man as an endangered species and, through film clips and interviews with AMNH...
Dates:
1968
The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 167
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma, 1938. The Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Burma was organized for the purpose of collecting zoological and botanical specimens for the AMNH, the New York Botanical Garden, the Kensington Museum of London (probably the British Museum of Natural History), Kew Gardens, and the Bombay Natural History Society. The international staff included co-leaders and AMNH trustees Arthur Stannard Vernay and Charles Suydam Cutting, AMNH mammalogist Harold...
Dates:
1938
The Vernay deer group
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 284
Scope and Contents
Partly filmed during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition, 1922-1923. The scenes at the opening of The Vernay Deer Group were edited from footage taken by filmmaker George M. Dyott during the AMNH Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition to create Jungle Life in India. However, several of the opening shots, including those of does, a stag, gazelles, a cheetah, and a muntjac appear only in this film, and not in Jungle Life in India. In the swamps of the Oudh plains, howdah and pad...
Dates:
1923-1927
The Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 285
Scope and Contents
Arthur Stannard Vernay, field associate in the museum's Department of Mammalogy, led the expedition to upper Burma to collect animal specimens and ethnographic artifacts. In the opening scenes, Vernay and hunter G. S. Rowley arrive by plane in Rangoon, where they join the rest of the expedition staff for the train trip to Mogaung and Nanyaseik. There the huge expedition company of 6 staff members, 52 assistants, and 110 mules prepare for the journey. At the jade mine at Lonkhin, a Burmese...
Dates:
1935
The Viking
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 286
Scope and Contents
The Viking is an epic of the Newfoundland sealers including a melodramatic love subplot. The love triangle is the story of two sealers, Luke and Jed, who love the same woman. The main theme of the film is the life and work of sealers, including techniques for freeing the ship from the ice. Men are seen on the ice trying to free the ship by dynamiting the ice floes. The men jump from ice block to ice block and use their coats as sails to propel the ice. There are scenes of vast expanses of...
Dates:
1931
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