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Greenland musk oxen
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 190
Scope and Contents
This short film is all that remains of an expedition film called North Iceland and Northeast Greenland made by John K. Howard, an AMNH patron. In it is pictured the Isfjord, the Frand Joseph fjord, the Nordenskjold glacier, icebergs, waterfalls at Geology fjord, and of particular interest, the musk oxen at Eleonore Bay and Ymer Island. The expedition's dog torments the animals, so they charge the intruder. In a lovely sequence, a worried cow protects her two young calves by fending off the...
Dates:
[1934]
Guatemala, land of the Maya
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 180
Scope and Contents
The informative narrative and lengthy, detailed scenes make this travel film useful for research. The film surveys many aspects of Guatemala. The film opens with views of a complex of Mayan ruins near Tikal, its temples, plazas, causeways, ball courts, palaces, bas-reliefs of great masks, stelae and altars, and the surrounding jungle with its ceiba, guanacaste, and mahogany trees. At the Dyers' jungle camp near a waterway, the party fishes for dinner. Howler monkeys, parrots, and a column of...
Dates:
1970
High Arctic
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 191
Scope and Contents
This film begins in Ottawa at the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. While there, a Mountie officer convinces Lewis Cotlow, producer and director of this film, to make a motion picture about the Eskimos of the high Arctic. The film shows Cotlow and his film crew setting out on board an official Mountie airplane named the Otter. The next sequence is a series of aerial views depicting the topography of the far north. Included is a beautiful shot of a pod of white beluga whales...
Dates:
1962-1963
Hopi Indians of the Southwest
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 192
Scope and Contents
The first part of this film is a study of weaving. Every action, from the carding of wool, through spinning it on a spindle, mounting yarn into warps, and weaving a sash using an upright loom are seen, all being performed by a Hopi man. This is followed by a ceremony leading up to a foot race by the priests as part of a maize celebration. Priests are seen blessing a kiva, a ceremonial underground chamber, with bullroarers and cloth "lightning." An antelope priest digs a sipapu (a symbolic...
Dates:
1925
How life begins
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 193
Scope and Contents
The AMNH purchased this film from Katherine F. Carter of the Exhibitors Booking Agency in 1917. George E. Stone, who had been an official U.S. Government photographer in France during World War I, collaborated with J. A. Long, assistant professor of embryology at the University of California, to make this early sex education film in an attempt to help combat venereal disease. Through captions, diagrams, and motion pictures, the film explains the processes involved in the development of...
Dates:
[1916?]
Huaca Prieta
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 194
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Institute of Andean Research Viru Valley Project in Peru, 1946-1947. The Viru Valley Project was a series of archaeological excavations in the Andes sponsored by the Institute for Andean Research. The AMNH co-sponsored one such excavation with the Institute at Huaca Prieta, a site dating between 3,100 B.C. and 1,300 B.C. in the Chicama Valley on the northern coast of Peru. Junius Bouton Bird, AMNH archaeologist, excavated and filmed this site with the help of his family....
Dates:
1946-1947
Hummingbird flight technique
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 195
Scope and Contents
This brief film, made by Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, AMNH trustee, is a study of hummingbird flight. A contributor of many photographs to the museum, Greenewalt made this film to be shown as part of an exhibition on bird flight in the museum's Corner Gallery. With a film speed of 1,500 frames per second, the hummingbird's flight technique can be seen in slow motion. The film also contains footage showing the birds feeding, alighting, and flying.
Dates:
1955
In the shadow of the Ruwenzori and the Ituri forest
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 181
Scope and Contents
While on vacation in Uganda and Zaire, Walter Gurnee and Betty Dyer filmed their trip and made sound recordings of the people and places they encountered. Their trip took them to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Lake Kivu, the Semliki River, the Semliki flats and the Ituri Forest. Shown are the daily activities of the inhabitants of a Mbuti (i.e. Bambuti) village in the Ituri Forest; a Walese (i.e. Lese) village and several fishing villages; Watutsi (i.e. Batutsi) dancers in action; laborers...
Dates:
1972
India : Bombay to Cape Comorin
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 182
Scope and Contents
The Dyers made this film while traveling through India. It opens with footage of Bombay Harbor; the fishermen of the seacoast town of Manori are then observed at work, and the town itself is explored through street scenes and a shot of the Tomb of Rabia-ud-Daurani, which closely resembles the Taj Mahal. Preparations for the Pongal Festival, celebrating the seasonal change from winter to summer, are observed in Mysore. A survey of Indian temples includes a discussion of Hinduism, as well as...
Dates:
1966
Indian communication : sign language of the North American Indian
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 196
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Wanamaker Historical Expeditions, 1908-1913. In 1908, 1909, and 1913, Rodman Wanamaker financed expeditions to study North American Indians. The expeditions were led by Joseph Kossuth Dixon, and filmed by his son Rollin Lester Dixon. "In undertaking these expeditions to the North American Indian," Wanamaker wrote in The Vanishing Race in 1913, "the sole desire has been to perpetuate the life story of the first Americans and to strengthen in their hearts the feeling of...
Dates:
1908-1913
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