Collection consists of film and photographs taken by Richard Kenneth Saker of Tibetan New Year (Losar) and of Western Tibet 1942-1943. Collection also includes chapters from his unpublished memoir relating to his tour of duty in Tibet.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical / Historical:
Richard Kenneth Saker was the British Trade Agent posted to Gyantse, Tibet from 1941-1943.
Provenance:
Received from Stephen Saker in 2008.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Video project by Mark Freeman documents the Otavalo Indians of the Andean highlands (province of Imbabura) of northern Ecuador and their economic success in adapting their traditional weaving and crafts for the international marketplace. The video project also records the tensions between traditional indigenous values and customs and modernization pressures that prosperity brings including tourism. Also examined are the ethnic tensions between the Otavalos and their less affluent white and mestizo neighbors. The edited video, "Weaving the Future" was edited from this project.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Number:
HSFA 1998.7.1
Related Materials:
Edited film Weaving the Future is archived at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Provenance:
Received from Mark Freeman in 1998.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Alonzo Pond was an archaeologist who worked for 6 years (1925-1931) as an Assistant Curator at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College. This collection contains films and supplementary materials concerning the excavations that he led in Northern Africa, Algeria, and New Mexico while he served in this position.
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains motion picture film and supplementary documents (audio recordings, correspondence, and manuscripts) relating primarily to the Beloit College/Logan Museum of Anthropology excavations in Northern Africa and Algeria led by Alonzo Pond. There are additional films relating to the Logan Museum's excavation in the Mimbres River Valley, New Mexico, and their purchase of an Aurignacian necklace.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in 2 series: (1) Films, 1925-circa 1930; (2) Supplementary Materials, 1922-circa 2003
Biographical Note- Alonzo Pond:
Alonzo W. Pond was born on June 18, 1894, in Janesville, Wisconsin. He received his B.S. at Beloit College in 1920 after taking two years off (1917-1919) to serve as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service in France during World War I. He was a member of the first class of the American School in Europe for Prehistory at the University of Paris (1921-1922). On his return to the United States, he began work on his M.A. at the University of Chicago. However, his studies were interupted when the Logan Museum of Anthropology sent him to Europe to purchase objects for their collection. He became an Associate Curator for the Logan Museum and, in that capacity, led three expeditions to Algeria and Northern Africa between 1925 and 1930. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1928. In addition to the expeditions that he led for the Logan Museum, he served as the archaeologist for Roy Chapman Andrews' third Asiatic Expedition in 1928 and led the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition in 1933. During the Great Depression, he worked for the U.S. Park Service (1934-1935) as the archaeologist at Jamestown Island, Virginia, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and for the Civilian Conservation Corps (1935-1937), acting as superintendent of the camp at Interstate Park, Wisconsin.
With his family, he developed and managed the newly discovered Cave of the Mounds in Wisconsin from 1940 to 1945. He then served as an information specialist with the Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center (ADTIC) at Maxwell Airforce Base in Alabama from 1949 to 1958. While with ADTIC, he was involved in 4 desert survival and reconnaissance flights in the Sahara (to Timbuktu) and Mid-East deserts. After his retirement, he and his family opened and operated the Wisonsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Pond wrote popular and scientific articles on travel, archaeology, ethnology, geography and natural history in local, state, and national newspapers and magazines, especially Wisconsin Tales and Trails, the New York Times, Life Magazine, Natural History Magazine, and American Legion Magazine. His books include A Contribution to the Study of Prehistoric Man in Algeria (1928); Primitive Methods of Working Stone: Based on Experiments of H. L. Skavlem (1930); Interstate Park and Dalles of St. Croix (1936); Prehistoric Habitation Sites in Sahara and N. Africa (1937); Guide Book to Cave of the Mounds (1941); Limestone Caverns, an educational movie produced by Coronet Productions (1941); Afoot in the Desert (1951, Revised 1956); Climate and Weather in Central Gobi of Mongolia (1951, Revised 1954); Sun, Sand and Survival, a survival training film produced by U.S. Air Force (1954); The Survival Book (1959); The Desert World (1962); Deserts, Silent Lands of the World (1965); Caverns of the World (1968); Survival in Sun and Sand (1969); Andrews, Gobi Explorer (1972); Dr. Kate and the Million Penny Parades (1974); and Paul Bunyan's Cookbook (1977).
Pond died on December 25, 1986, in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Sources Consulted
Register of the Alonzo W. and Dorothy L. Pond Papers, 1869-1989 (bulk 1913-1986), Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections. Accessed August 10, 2020. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00762
Chronology
1894 -- Born June 18 in Janesville, Wisconsin
1917-1919 -- Drove an ambulance for the American Field Service in France during World War I
1920 -- Received B.S. at Beloit College
1921-1922 -- Studied at the American School in Europe for Prehistory
1925-1931 -- Assistant Curator at Logan Museum of Anthropology
1925-1926 -- Led the Logan Sahara Expedition
1926 -- Married Dorothy Long on July 20
1926-1927 -- Led Logan African Expedition
1928 -- Received M.A. from University of Chicago Archaeologist with Roy Chapman Andrews' third Asiatic Expedition
1929-1930 -- Led Logan African Expedition
1933 -- Led Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition
1934-1935 -- Served as archaeologist for U.S. National Park Service at Jamestown Island, Virginia, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
1935-1937 -- Served as superintendent of Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Interstate Park, Wisconsin
1940-1945 -- Managed the Cave of the Mounds near Madison, Wisconsin
1949-1958 -- Worked as an information specialist with the Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center (ADTIC) at the Maxwell Airforce Base in Alabama
1958-1968 -- Owned and operated Wisconsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin with his wife
1986 -- Died at home on December 25 in Minocqua, Wisconsin
Biographical Note- Dorothy Pond:
Dorothy Pond was born Dorothy Long in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1900. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Economics. Dorothy and Alonzo were pen pals on his 1925 expedition and married soon after his return. She served as the camp director on Beloit College's 1930 Algerian Expedition as well as on many other of Alonzo's excavations. Her account of her experiences in Algeria, If Women Have Courage: Among Shepherds, Sheiks, and Scientists in Algeria, was published posthumously in 2014. A manuscript draft of this is included in the collection.
Dorothy Pond died in November 1987 in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Sources Consulted
Beloit Digital Archives. "Members of the Expedition." Beloit College's 1930 Expedition to Algeria. Accessed August 18, 2020. http://beloitdigitalarchives.com/cms/exhibits/show/1930-expedition/people
Higgins, Jim. "Dorothy L. Pond's 'If Women Have Courage' Recounts Wisconsinite's Adventure." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Accessed August 18, 2020. http://archive.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/dorothy-l-ponds-if-women-have-courage-recounts-wisconsinites-adventure-b99416733z1-287337471.html/
Chronology
1900 -- Born on August 26th in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
1926 -- Married Alonzo Pond on July 20
1930 -- Served as camp director for the Logan African Expedition
1958-1968 -- Owned and operated Wisconsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin, with her husband
1987 -- Died in November in Minocqua, Wisconsin
Related Materials:
Reliving the Past: Alonzo Pond and the 1930 Logan African Expedition; George L. Waite "Desert Sheiks" lantern slides, 1930 (NAA.PhotoLot.2010-12 in SOVA); Alonzo W. and Dorothy L. Pond Papers at the Wisconsin Historical Society; George L. Waite collections at the Wisconsin State Historical Society; Alonzo W. Pond papers at Beloit College; Alonzo William Pond collection at the American Museum of Natural History Archives. Expeditionary objects are in the collection of the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College and The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Provenance:
The rolls of 35mm nitrate negatives were donated by Alonzo Pond (by way of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they had been stored) and the rolls of 35mm prints (which were most likely used by Pond during his lectures) and all other films were donated by Beloit College.
Accession 1987.1.1, North Africa Prehistory Expedition, was donated by the University of Minnesota, Department of Anthropology.
The audio materials were recorded by the HSFA.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
The Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection documents their work as travel filmmakers, photographers, and writers from 1954-2015. Their films are an example of the travel lecture film, a genre which combined silent travelogue films with live narration. Chickering and Porterfield presented their films throughout the United States and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s before turning to freelance still photography and travel writing in the early 1980s. The audiovisual and photography collection begins with their first joint travels in the 1950s and covers a range of their professional activities through the early 2000s, mainly encompassing original travel footage, edited travelogues, and travel still photography. Supporting documentation includes film scripts, lecture recordings, personal and professional manuscripts, financial and professional records, and a substantial amount of newspaper and magazine articles which serve as a record of the press generated by and about Chickering and Porterfield.
Scope and Contents:
The Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection documents their work as travel filmmakers, photographers, and writers from 1954-2015. The audiovisual and photography collection begins with their first joint travels in the 1950s and covers a range of their professional activities through the early 2000s, mainly encompassing original travel footage, edited travelogues, and travel still photography. Supporting documentation includes film scripts, lecture recordings, personal and professional manuscripts, financial and professional records, and a substantial amount of newspaper and magazine articles which serve as a record of the press generated by and about Chickering and Porterfield.
Records pertaining to Chickering and Porterfield's film career include full lecture scripts for their five major silent travel films: Austria à la Carte (1960), Caribbean Dutch Treat (1963), Bravo Portugal! (1965), Europe's Mini-Countries (1968), and Winter in Mexico (1973). Chickering and Porterfield delivered these scripts at venues throughout the United States in front of live audiences while the (silent) travelogues were screened behind them, essentially acting as live narrators. Silent access copies are available for each of these films except for Austria à la Carte; audio recordings of their live lectures are available for Austria à la Carte, Caribbean Dutch Treat, Winter in Mexico. Reference video is also available for Chickering and Porterfield's two shorter sound films: Four Seasons of Austria (1962) and Portugal with Pleasure (1968). Other film material includes several sets of lecture tour records listing dates, locations, topics, and fees, as well as a large amount of advertising material.
Also included in this collection are a large number of published and unpublished manuscripts, including both personal projects and assignment travel writing. Several personal narrative essays and more complete memoir drafts give insight into Chickering and Porterfield's filmmaking process, industry tips, and travel methods, as well as anecdotes from the field. Assignment travel writing ranges geographically, with a focus on cruise ships.
Other materials in the collection include extensive inventories of still photography, personal and professional correspondence, and a substantial amount of printed material which was retained as a central resource for press generated by and about Chickering and Porterfield.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in 9 series: Series 1. Film documentation, 1959-1986, undated; Series 2. Still photography documentation, 1958-2004, undated; Series 3. Writings, 1954-1997, undated; Series 4. Printed material, 1959-2002, undated; Series 5. Other professional materials, 1987-2000, undated; Series 6. Correspondence, 1957-1992, 2000, 2015, undated; Series 7. Films and film-related sound recordings, circa 1960-2015; Series 8. Other audiovisual material, 1957, 1966, 1981, undated; Series 9. Photographs, 1956-2001, undated.
Biographical / Historical:
Lisa Chickering (1922-) and Jeanne Porterfield (1923-2010) were travel filmmakers, photographers, and writers in New York City whose professional output spanned from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Chickering and Porterfield first met in Chicago, where they were childhood friends and neighbors. Porterfield attended the University of Chicago and eventually earned a master's in musicology from the American Conservatory of Music, after which she trained under Uta Hagen to pursue stage and television acting; Chickering trained as an opera singer and pianist before turning to work as a stage and cabaret singer, as well as a model at the John Robert Powers Agency. The pair's filmmaking career began in 1954, when they traveled to Paris for a singing engagement Chickering had booked. When they arrived, they found the engagement had fallen through. Porterfield began to act as Chickering's agent, and the two cobbled together a three-year international tour, which they documented on an 8mm camera. Upon returning to New York in 1958, they incorporated a production company, Viewpoints, Inc., and returned to Europe to film their first professional project.
Viewpoints, Inc. released five full-length (70-80 minute) silent travelogues through the 1960s and early 1970s, set in Western European and North American tourist destinations: Austria à la Carte (1960), Caribbean Dutch Treat (1963), Bravo Portugal! (1965), Europe's Mini-Countries (1968), and Winter in Mexico (1973). Chickering and Porterfield acted as directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors on each film. The pair also presented these films on the travel lecture film circuit at venues in the United States and Canada ranging from Kiwanis clubs to major concert halls, narrating their silent footage onstage in front of live audiences.
Viewpoints, Inc. also released two shorter 30-minute public relations sound films sponsored by Volkswagen of America: Four Seasons of Austria (1962, which used footage from Austria à la Carte) and Portugal with Pleasure (1968, which used footage from Bravo Portugal!). Both of these films won awards at the American Film Festival. A third public relations film, co-sponsored by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Curaçao Tourism Board and titled Curaçao: The Caribbean Dutch Treat, was released in 1962 and used footage from Caribbean Dutch Treat.
Chickering and Porterfield turned to still photography in earnest in the 1980s and continued working through the early 2000s; their work was published as educational filmstrips as well as in various leading travel and lifestyle publications, including in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Glamor, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, and Better Homes & Gardens. The pair also authored a number of travel features to accompany their photos, with a particular emphasis on cruise ships.
Porterfield died in 2010 in New York City, where Lisa still lives.
1922 -- Lisa Chickering born December 24 in Chicago, Illinois.
1923 -- Jeanne Porterfield born February 14 in Beloit, Wisconsin.
1954 -- First joint travels abroad
1958 -- Viewpoints, Inc. (production company) incorporated
1960 -- Austria à la Carte released
circa 1962 -- Recipients, Silver Plaque of Merit in Tourism from Austrian National Tourist Office
1962 -- Recipients, American Film Festival Blue Ribbon (for Four Seasons of Austria) Four Seasons of Austria released
1962 -- Recipients, Blue Ribbon from the American Film Festival Travel Category (for Four Seasons of Austria)
1963 -- Caribbean Dutch Treat released
1965 -- Bravo Portugal! released
1968 -- Europe's Mini-Countries released
1968 -- Recipients, American Film Festival Blue Ribbon (for Portugal with Pleasure) Portugal with Pleasure released
1968 -- Recipients, Blue Ribbon from the American Film Festival Travel Category (for Portugal with Pleasure)
1972-1975 -- Educational filmstrips photographed by Chickering and Porterfield distributed by the Society for Visual Education, Inc.
1973 -- Winter in Mexico released
circa 1975 -- Began working in still photography and travel writing
1982 -- Recipient (Porterfield), Grand Prize for Black and White Photography, Society of American Travel Writers
1983 -- Recipients, First and Second Prize, Society of American Travel Writers Freelance Council Photo Contest
1987-1990 -- President (Chickering), Travel Journalists' Guild
2008 -- Recipient (Chickering), Bern Keating Award for Lifetime Service, Travel Journalists' Guild
2010 -- Died (Porterfield) January 15 in New York, New York.
Provenance:
This collection was donated to the National Anthropological Film Collection (formerly the Human Studies Film Archives) by Lisa Chickering in 2015.
Restrictions:
The Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the National Anthropological Film Collection may not be played.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Citation:
Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution
Collection consist of films documenting archaeological field work in the Tennessee and Arizona, Zuni pueblo and the surrounding landscape in New Mexico, and Chichen Itza in Mexico. Films comprise part of MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs in the National Anthropological Archives.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs.
Provenance:
Transferred from the National Anthropological Archives in 1986.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Uncut footage of film studies made for NINDS by E. Richard Sorenson. Includes footage made in Mexico (Tarahumara and Mestizo); South Fore, Papua New Guinea; New Hebrides; Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia; Fore, Papua New Guinea and Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Uncut footage filmed by Kalman Muller in the New Hebrides (see also 75-001).
Supplementary materials: Film equipment, associated texts.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Related Materials:
The Human Studies Film Archives also holds the Kalman Muller films of New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
Provenance:
Received from the National Institute for Neurological Diseases in 1974.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Film reels (9 hours, color sound; 19,843 feet, 16mm)
Sound recordings (9 hours, 1/4 inch)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound recordings
Sound films
Place:
Africa
Ghana
Date:
1972
Scope and Contents:
Film project shot in Ghana by John Marshall in collaboration with ethnomusicologist Nicholas England. The footage focuses on the music and influence of Vinoko Akpalu, an important Ewe conposer and poet. Marhsall shot the film on Akpalu's hometown of ANyako, Ghana in August 1972. England recorded teh synchronous sound and made additional recordings.
It appears that Marhsall and England planned to edit a film from this mateial, but the project was never completed.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Documentary Educational Resources in 2008.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
270 Film reels (color black-and-white sound, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Educational films
Sound films
Date:
1945-1982
Scope and Contents:
Titles are educational films of ethnographic interest dating back to late 40s but primarily from 60s and 70s.
Some film titles came with teacher instructional information found in film cans.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical / Historical:
REMC 2, located in Traverse City, Michigan, provided media services to public and state recognized private and parochial schools in a 14 county region.
Provenance:
Received from the Regional Educational Media Center Association of Michigan (REMC 2) in 1994.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Educational films
Sound films
Citation:
REMC 2 educational film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Full video record of Afro-Brazilian traditions from Maranhão, Brazil. Documentation includes: chanting, drumming, and trance-possession dancing in the Tambor de Mina tradition in Sao Luis, the capital city of the northern Brazilian state of Maranhão. The rituals of this tradition exhibit some similarities with other more well-known Afro-Brazilian religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda. 'Mina' traditions derive their distinctiveness from prominent Dahomean (Vodun) as well as Amerindian and European influences. Featured is extensive footage of the oldest and most traditionally African "houses" in Sao Luis (for example, the Dahomean or 'Gege' Casa das Minas, the Casa de NagÃ'o, and Casa da Turquia), as well as the numerous Tambor de Mina (both 'Mata' and Spiritist influenced) terreiros (ritual centers) in the city. The collection aptly documents the vibrant diversity of form and practice which exists among different terreiros including some in the interior of Sao Luis Island and in the interior Maranhão town of Codó. Documentation also includes footage of popular folk dances and celebrations such as the Bumba-Meu Boi tradition, Carnaval, 'Bloco-Afro' groups, and an imported version of Candomblé.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Recieved from Daniel T. Halperin in 1992.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection consists of five episodes of National Geographic EXPLORER. Titles are: FIRE AND STEEL; WAY OF THE WADAABE; SAMBA; JU JU MUSIC; HAITIAN VOODOO.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Linda Goldman in 1990.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Video recordings
Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A SEARCH FOR VANISHED PEOPLE and THE EARTH IS OUR HOME, produced by Elizabeth Patapoff and Oregon Public Broadcasting. (Both titles are on the same tape).
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical / Historical:
Elizabeth Patapoff was a public broadcasting writer and producer based in Portland, Oregon, where she led television production for KOAP-TV (now KOPB-TV) from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Provenance:
Received from the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, in 1994.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection consists of films shot by Joseph K. Dixon who was financed by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker to lead expeditions to the west photographing and filming American Indians. Collection also contains research notes and master thesis on the Dixon-Wanamaker expeditions.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Wayne Weiss in 2006.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection consists of film footage shot by Joseph Dixon on the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker expedition. Collection also contains associated texts, annotations (recorded narratives), and field notes.
Legacy Keywords: Settlement rural ; Procession horse procession ; Costume bridge cloth ; Ceremonies "giveaway" ; Stores general store ; School Catholic girls school mission school ; Bathing men bathing ; Racing horse racing ; Battles reenactment of Battle of Little Big Horn ; Infants infant carried on cradle board ; Wolf Mountains ; North America ; Montana ; Little Bighorn River (Mont.) ; Custer's Battlefield
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Provenance:
Received from Larry Schultz in 1986.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
silent films
Citation:
Films of the Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
1 Film reel (23 minutes, black-and-white silent; 400 feet, 8mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Silent films
Place:
North America
Kentucky
Date:
circa 1939
Scope and Contents:
Footage documenting the archaeology of the Wright burial mound, a middle to late Adena culture site in Eastern Kentucky. This large-scale mound excavation was made possible by a work crew provided by the Works Progress Administration. The film shows archaeological methodology, particularly in the manner of excavation through arbitrary stratigraphic levels. Documented are artifacts including an arrowhead, a bead necklace, and presumably other, as yet unidentifiable, prestige goods. Also includes footage of the excavation of a human burial and the associated burial goods.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Number:
HSFA 1983.8.1
Provenance:
Received from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky in 1983.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Production film materials for TREE OF LIFE (2 versions TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, EAGLE'S CHILDREN, 1987 film footage of Afghanistan and film footage for a New Mexico Chile film.
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Provenance:
Received from Pacho Lane in 2004.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Short films created by Frank L. Kreznar. engineer award winning amateur filmmaker.
Collection also contains film production notebooks; research materials; technical writings; screening logs; amateur cinema newsletters, awards and programs; and still photographs.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Sonia Kreznar in 1997.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Edited footage shot in West Africa (1931), Haiti (1934) and Georgia (U.S. ca. 1930) for/by Melville Herskovits.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
These films and related papers were transferred to the National Anthropological Film Center by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in 1977.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Melville Herskovits films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Preservation supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Film Preservation Foundation. Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Outtakes from a film project shot in eastern Jamaica among the descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. Documented are aspects of Maroon culture including communal labor (with digging songs), Kromanti drumming and healing rights, and cultivation and marketing of agricultural produce.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1991.12.2
Related Materials:
The Human Studies Film Archives also holds an edited release print of Capital of Earth: the Maroons of Moore Town as part of its Penn State Film collection.
Provenance:
Received from Jefferson Miller in 1991.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Sound films
Citation:
Capital of Earth: the Maroons of Moore Town (outtakes), Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Four films made by Bess Lomax Hawes while she was a folklorist in the Anthropology Department, California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, California (formerly San Fernando Valley State College). There is a study guide for each film.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Bess Lomax Hawes in 1995.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Film and video of the ethnomusicology collection of Laura C. Boulton, shot primarily by Dr. Boulton among traditional peoples around the world. (See inventory attached to agreement).
Collection contains supplementary material: associated texts, sound recordings, annotations, sound logs, and field notes.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Related Materials:
The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology has the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music; the Harvard University Archive of World Music (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library) houses Boulton's liturgical music collection; the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress contains wax cylinders, aluminum discs and reel-to-reel tapes of Boulton's field recordings of traditional vocal and instrumental music worldwide; and Smithsonian Folkways has the originals of recordings Boulton made for Folkways Records.
Provenance:
Received from the Laura Boulton Foundation in 1987.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
