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Children of Mexico
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 154
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Educational Expedition to Mexico, 1940. Grace Fisher Ramsey of the AMNH Department of Education made a series of short films in 1940, during the Educational Expedition to Mexico This particular film is an introduction to the children of Mexico The film opens with Mexican mothers carrying their babies by tucking them into their shawls. Footage of children playing is seen, some of them girls with their dolls. New schools are visited where primary and intermediate...
Dates:
1940
China and Tibet
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 164
Scope and Contents
Filmed during a Field Museum of Natural History expedition to China, Tibet, and Vietnam, 1929. This expedition film is a record of a collecting trip organized under the auspices of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The expedition team of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., his brother Kermit, and Charles Suydam Cutting went to China and Tibet in order to collect indigenous animals, in particular, the giant panda. The film, however, is primarily a record of the people, many of whom are not...
Dates:
1929
Columbia Broadcast System, Inc. Adventure Series collection
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 25-144-Mss .C377
Dates:
Broadcast: 1953 - 1956
Congo
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 156
Scope and Contents
This footage is comprised of outtakes of the Warner Brothers feature film The Congo but there is no information on it in the Warners' archives. The print was given to the museum by Norman Moray, of Warners, in 1947, on behalf of Harry M. Warner. The film was made in the Congo region that is now Zaire and provides a survey of landscapes (waterfalls, and the Lualaba River), as well as the wildlife (an elephant and a lion), and the people of the region (pygmies and Mubira people). The footage...
Dates:
1940
Craftsmen of Mexico
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 158
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Educational Expedition to Mexico, 1940. This film by Grace Fisher Ramsey, associate curator of the AMNH Department of Education, opens in color with images of Otomi women near Popocatapetl making twine from maguey fibers; they perform this task while walking along the road. A marketplace is seen with Indian craftsmen at work: plates are decorated with paints made from various earths; a man makes bracelets of braided reeds and silk. In the city of Tlaguepagua potters...
Dates:
1940
Crossroads of the deep
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 162
Scope and Contents
This film records a big game fishing trip in the converging waters of the mineral-rich Ecuadorian and Humboldt currents off the coast of Peru. The proliferous plankton, which lives off of these minerals, provides an attractive feeding ground for large game fish. After boarding their craft, the Don Fredy, at an Indian fishing village, Alfred Glassell Jr. and his crew fight and eventually haul in marlin and broadbill swordfish. Footage of the tuna fishing boats from the Oceanic Co. follows,...
Dates:
1952
Cruising north (bird islands)
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 235
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland, 1926. This film was taken during the Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland in 1926. It opens on Campbell Church's yacht, the Westward, with footage of the cook baking bread, the staff dining, and shots of the crew. Later, small skiffs are shown transporting the expedition party to land. The camera follows the party as they climb ragged cliffs to reach the avian inhabitants. Rhinoceros auklets are taken from their nests to be...
Dates:
1926
Danses de Dogons, de Sanga, et de Bandiagara
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 168
Scope and Contents
Given to the museum by the estate of Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's youngest child, this is probably one of several French Government films she owned, as she had worked extensively with the French Government during World War I. The dances of the Dogon escarpments of Sanga and Bandiagara in Mali are the focus of this film. Three distinctive dances are highlighted and the costumes and masks worn in these dances are clearly seen. First, a simple dance is performed by women clothed in bandanas,...
Dates:
[192- ]1930
Danses des Cambodgiennes
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 169
Scope and Contents
This film was given to the AMNH by the estate of Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's youngest child. This is probably one of several French Government films which she owned. In this film, the Royal Cambodian Ballet performs a traditional dance on an elaborate covered patio. With articulated fingers and hyper-extended elbows, the female dancers create postures said to be similar to stone-relief sculptures on the walls of Angkor Wat. The dancers wear silk costumes, which they have been sewn into (a...
Dates:
[1930?]
Dead birds
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 172
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition to the Baliem Valley of Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya), 1961. This film chronicles the two seasons the expedition spent with the Dugum Dani (i.e. Dani) in the Kurelu area of the Baliem Valley, Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia). Its purpose was to record the Kurelu wars, rituals, and daily life, and show a people trapped in an avenge-reprisal system. The scientists on the expedition were Karl G. Heider, Jim Brockhuyse and...
Dates:
1962
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