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Creator:

Saker, Richard Kenneth, 1908-1979  Search this

Extent:

2 Film reels (44 minutes, color silent; 500 feet, 8mm)

261 Negatives (photographic) (black-and-white)

395 Photographic prints (black-and-white and hand-colored)

Culture:

Tibetans  Search this

Buddhists  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Negatives (photographic)

Photographic prints

Silent films

Place:

East Asia

Tibet Region

Date:

1942-1943

Scope and Contents:

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 Collection also includes chapters from his unpublished memoir relating to his tour of duty in Tibet.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 As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today.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.

Rights:

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Topic:

Nomads  Search this

New Year  Search this

Genre/Form:

silent films

Citation:

Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.2008.16

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Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9ebec4f6e-dead-4337-b853-0b0560f29d52

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-2008-16

Collection Creator:

Saker, Richard Kenneth, 1908-1979  Search this

Extent:

291 Negatives (photographic) (black-and-white)

395 Photographic prints (black-and-white hand-colored)

Type:

Archival materials

Negatives (photographic)

Photographic prints

Date:

1942-1943

Scope and Contents:

Contains photographs of Gyantse and New Year festivities (Losar) in Lhasa, Tibet. Chaam dancers are also photographed in courtyard. Other images include a 1943 trek into Western Tibet including scenery and peoples encountered such as nomadic groups and Indian traders as well as some miscellaneous photographs of Saker and his wife.

Collection 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 Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9b901edc6-1418-4bf5-aa28-eea0d407f8fd

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2008-16-ref2

Director:

Porterfield, Jeanne  Search this

Chickering, Lisa  Search this

Extent:

38 Film reels

7 Sound tape reels

5 Electronic discs (DVD)

1 Videocassettes (U-matic)

5 Videocassettes (Digital Betacam)

67.86 Linear feet

18 Sound discs (vinyl)

4 Cassette tapes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Sound tape reels

Electronic discs (dvd)

Videocassettes (u-matic)

Videocassettes (digital betacam)

Sound discs (vinyl)

Cassette tapes

Date:

1954-2015, undated

Summary:

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:

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Citation:

Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.2015.16

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Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9d4291899-a9ca-472c-bf1f-db63c45b5cf4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-2015-16

Collection Director:

Porterfield, Jeanne  Search this

Chickering, Lisa  Search this

Extent:

38 Folders

13 Containers ((Kodachrome boxes))

Container:

Box 13-19, 128

Box 136

Type:

Archival materials

Slide sheet

Slides

Containers

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Including: Brazil, Egypt, Israel, New York state, Delta Queen Cruise, unlabeled.

Collection 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.

Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

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Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 9: Photographs / 9.3: Travel photography / 9.3.1: Selected photographs / Slides (35mm): / International:

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc963a5c4bc-8d67-4f07-a8c3-d96377eb28a2

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2015-16-ref343

Collection Director:

Porterfield, Jeanne  Search this

Chickering, Lisa  Search this

Extent:

1.48 Linear feet

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1956-2002

undated

Scope and Contents:

This subseries consists of miscellaneous and promotional prints and negatives of and by Chickering and Porterfield. Photographs of interest include personal photographs from childhood and young adulthood, photographs from the pair's first trip around the world in 1956 and a number of subsequent journeys, and professional portraits of Chickering and Porterfield (both headshots and at lectures).

Photographs arrived loose and remain unarranged. Many materials still in original housing.

Collection 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.

Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.2015.16, Subseries 9.2

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Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 9: Photographs

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9d3a302f5-f5a0-46a9-9385-fcbc911046f2

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2015-16-ref297

Collection Director:

Porterfield, Jeanne  Search this

Chickering, Lisa  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1956-1993

undated

Scope and Contents:

This subseries consists of articles and press written by others about Chickering and Porterfield, as well as the fields of travel film and photography more generally.

Arranged chronologically.

Collection 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.

Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection, National Anthropological Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.2015.16, Subseries 4.1

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Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection / Series 4: Printed material

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9164dd6a1-9547-4b77-9c1b-d74fabf6a46c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2015-16-ref90

Collaborator:

McElwee, Ross  Search this

Blitz, Daniel  Search this

Bishop, John Melville  Search this

Baker, Peter  Search this

Ritchie, Claire  Search this

Young, Robert  Search this

Terry, John  Search this

Galvin, Frank  Search this

Bestall, Clifford  Search this

Gardner, Robert  Search this

Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994  Search this

Marshall, Lorna  Search this

Creator:

Marshall, John, 1932-2005  Search this

Extent:

2 Boxes (map drawers)

3 Video recordings (published videos or video series)

99 Linear feet (714,405 feet (332 hours) 16mm film, 435 hours video tape, 309 hours audio tape, 21 published film and video titles, 29 unpublished film and video titles, 14 linear feet paper records)

Culture:

San (African people)  Search this

Bushman  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Video recordings

Documentary films

Place:

Namibia

Date:

1950-2000

Summary:

The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection contains full film and video projects (outtake material), film production elements and edited films and videos, audio tapes, still photographs, negatives, transparencies, slides, published and unpublished writing by John Marshall and others, study guides for edited films, Nyae Nyae Development Foundation and Advocacy files, maps, and production files that include letters, shot logs, translations, transcriptions, editing logs, treatments, and proposals spanning from 1950-2000. This material comprises Marshall's long-term documentary record of the Ju/'hoansi of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia. A great deal of the film and video footage focuses on one particular extended family, that of Toma Tsamko, whose ancestral home is at /Gautcha, an area with a large salt pan and a permanent waterhole. The life stories of some family members are captured in the footage; appearing as children in the 1950's, middle-aged parents in the 1980's, and pensioners in the final years of visual documentation. The Marshall Collection also documents other Ju/'hoansi living in Nyae Nyae and elsewhere, their relationships with neighboring ethnic groups, and national politics that affected Ju/'hoansi. Marshall also documented the local political body (the Nyae Nyae Farmers' Cooperative, or NNFC), the foundation he started (the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia, or NNDFN), and the ways in which both groups worked with and were affected by international development organizations and foreign aid during the 1990's.

Scope and Contents:

The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection contains full film and video projects (outtake material), film production elements and edited films and videos, audio tapes, still photographs, negatives, transparencies, slides, published and unpublished writing by John Marshall and others, study guides for edited films, Nyae Nyae Development Foundation and Advocacy files, maps, and production files that include letters, shot logs, translations, transcriptions, editing logs, treatments, and proposals spanning from 1950-2000.

This material comprises Marshall's long-term documentary record of the Ju/'hoansi of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia. A great deal of the film and video footage focuses on one particular extended family, that of Toma Tsamko, whose ancestral home is at /Gautcha, an area with a large salt pan and a permanent waterhole. The life stories of some family members are captured in the footage; appearing as children in the 1950's, middle-aged parents in the 1980's, and pensioners in the final years of visual documentation. Beginning in 1978, Marshall often conducted lengthy and in depth interviews with many family members, in which they reflect on past, present, and future, and often comment on specific film footage from earlier years which was shown to them during the interviews. The collection is not limited to the /Gautcha family, however; it also documents other Ju/'hoansi living in Nyae Nyae and elsewhere, their relationships with neighboring ethnic groups, and national politics that affected Ju/'hoansi. Marshall also documented the local political body (the Nyae Nyae Farmers' Cooperative, or NNFC), the foundation he started (the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia, or NNDFN), and the ways in which both groups worked with and were affected by international development organizations and foreign aid during the 1990's. The collection also documents changes to the landscape and wildlife of the Nyae Nyae region.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 13 series: (1) Unedited Film and Video Projects, 1950-1978, 1981-2003; (2) Published Films and Videos, 1952-2002; (3) Unpublished Films and Videos, 1959-1962, circa 1965; (4) Audio, 1950s, 1978-1990; (5) Field Notes, Shot Logs, Translations, 1951-2000; (6) Production Files, 1952-2004; (7) Correspondence, 1968-2003 [bulk 1993-2000]; (8) Nyae Nyae Development Foundation & Advocacy Files, 1975-2003 [bulk 1984-2003]; (9) Published and Unpublished Writing, 1957-1958, 1980-1999, 2007; (10) Study Guides, 1974, 1982; (11) Writings by Others & Press, 1952-1953, 1965-2005; (12) Photographs, 1930s, 1946-2003; (13) Maps, 1872, 1879, 1914, 1933-1989.

Biographical / Historical:

John Marshall, filmmaker and activist, was born on November 12, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and on his family's farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Marshall first picked up a camera in 1950, at the age of 18, during the first of several expeditions to the Kalahari organized by his father, Laurence Marshall, the founding president of the Raytheon Corporation. The whole Marshall family - including John's mother, Lorna, and sister, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - became engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of the Ju/'hoansi. Marshall's father assigned him the task of making a documentary film record of Ju/'hoan life and culture. Between 1950 and 1958, he shot over 300,000 feet of 16mm film (157 hours).

Marshall formed a close bond with many of his Ju/'hoan subjects, particularly with Toma "Stumpy" Tsamko, leader of the /Gautcha band. Amongst Ju/'hoansi, Marshall was known as Toma Xhosi, Toma "Longface". Probably because of this close relationship, he was forced to leave South West Africa in 1958 after his visa expired, and was not allowed back for twenty years.

During the 1960's and 1970's, Marshall became well-established as a cinema vérité filmmaker. After leaving the Film Study Center at Harvard, which he had co-directed with Robert Gardner, he worked briefly with Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, and later collaborated with Fredrick Wiseman on Titicut Follies (1967). He forged friendships with leading documentary and ethnographic filmmakers, including Timothy Asch, Ricky Leacock, and Jean Rouch.

Throughout these years, Marshall continued to work with his extensive footage of Ju/'hoansi. He completed 15 short films, as well as the award-winning Bitter Melons. In 1968, Marshall partnered with Tim Asch to found Documentary Educational Resources (DER), to distribute and support the creation of ethnographic and educational film.

In 1978 Marshall was allowed to return to Nyae Nyae to shoot N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman. Finding his Ju/'hoan friends beset by illness, poverty, and growing social ills, John turned his attentions to development and advocacy work. Virtually abandoning his filmmaking career, Marshall started a foundation to assist Ju/'hoansi and spent most of the 1980's helping them establish water access, subsistence farming, and a local government. He began using film as an advocacy tool, and released several urgent, issuefocused videos to raise awareness of the Ju/'hoan struggle for self-determination.

Marshall continued his documentary record of Ju/'hoansi, directing his final shoot in 2000. A Kalahari Family (2002), his epic six-hour series, tells the story of the Ju/'hoansi from 1950-2000 and charts Marshall 's evolution from filmmaker to activist. He made his final visit to Nyae Nyae in 2004, and continued his advocacy work right up to his final days. John Marshall died due to complications from lung cancer on April 22, 2005.

John Marshall Chronology

1932 -- Born in Boston, Massachusetts

1950-1958 -- Marshall Family expeditions to study the Ju/'hoansi of Nyae Nyae

1957 -- Awarded B.A. in Anthropology from Harvard University The Hunters released

1958-1960 -- Associate Director (with Robert Gardner) of the Film Study Center, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1960 -- Awarded G.S.A.S. in Anthropology from Yale University

1960-1963 -- Director, Bushmen Film Unit, Harvard University

1962 -- Sha//ge Curing Ceremony (early version of A Curing Ceremony), A Group of Women and Joking Relationship screened at Flaherty Seminar

1964-1965 -- Cameraman for NBC covering civil war in Cyprus

1966 -- Awarded M.A. in Anthropology from Harvard University

1967 -- Cameraman and Co-Director of Fredrick Wiseman's Titicut Follies

1968 -- Founded Documentary Educational Resources (DER) with Timothy Asch (first known as CDA, Center for Documentary Anthropology)

1968-1969 -- Cameraman and Director of film shoots for the Pittsburgh Police series, produced through the Center for Violence Studies at Brandeis University

1970-1974 -- Edited and released numerous short films, from both Ju/'hoan (!Kung) and Pittsburgh Police series

1972 -- Collaborated with Nicholas England (musicologist) on a film project documenting a family of drummers in Ghana (this film was never completed)

1972-1973 -- Travel to Botswana to film National Geographic's Bushmen of the Kalahari, produced by Wolper Productions

1974 -- If It Fits, documentary on failing shoe industry in Haverhill, MA, released

1976 -- Director and cameraman of film shoots for Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife

1978 -- Film shoot in Nyae Nyae for N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

1980 -- N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman released and broadcast on PBS as partof the Odyssey series

1980-1982 -- Conducted genealogical survey in Nyae Nyae with Claire Ritchie

1982 -- Founded the Ju/wa Cattle Fund (later known as the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia)

1985 -- Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out, Marshall's first "field report" edited on video, released

1989 -- Returns to Boston after Namibian independence

1991 -- To Hold Our Ground, another "field report" is aired on Namibian television shortly before a national Land Rights Conference

1993 -- The Cinema of John Marshall published

1995 -- Awarded Honorary M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design

2000 -- Final video shoot in Nyae Nyae

2002 -- A Kalahari Family premieres at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City; released for general distribution in 2003

2004 -- Makes final visit to Nyae Nyae; presents proposal for water point protections

2005 -- Dies in Boston, Massachusetts

Orthography Note:

Ju/'hoansi are the speakers of the Ju/'hoan language. Various cultural descriptors used over the years include !Kung which is a language group containing three dialect groups, one of which is the Ju/'hoansi; San, which is now regarded by the Ju/'hoansi to have negative connotations; and Bushman, which ironically (given the derogatory history of this term) is now preferred by the Ju/'hoansi as a term of dignity. (Orthography information provided by Dr. Polly Wiessner, University of Utah anthropologist and longtime field worker among and researcher of the Ju/'hoansi.)

The orthography of the Ju/'hoan language has changed many times, though an official orthography was agreed upon and accepted by the Namibian government in 1991. The finding aid, cataloging records, and shot logs for the Marshall collection at Human Studies Film Archives continue to use the orthography used by the Marshall family beginning in 1950. These spellings are usually anglicized versions of the official orthography. For example, the name ≠Oma was usually rendered by the Marshalls as Toma; the place name /Aotcha as /Gautcha or Gautscha.

The majority of the footage was shot in a region of Namibia (formerly South West Africa) known as Nyae Nyae. In the 1960's, a portion of the Nyae Nyae area was officially established as a homeland for Ju/'hoansi by the South West African administration. This area, once called Eastern Bushmanland, is now known as Eastern Otjozondjupa, however it is still referred to as Nyae Nyae by Ju/'hoansi and others. The Nyae Nyae Conservancy, which encompasses a large portion of Eastern Otjozondjupa, was established in 1996.

Filmography:

JU/'HOAN BUSHMAN FILM SERIES

1952 -- First Film [also known as !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari] (by Lorna Marshall)

1957 -- The Hunters

1959 -- A Curing Ceremony

1961 -- A Group Of Women

1962 -- A Joking Relationship

1966 -- !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment (directed by Lorna Marshall)

1969 -- N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

1969 -- An Argument About A Marriage

1970 -- The Lion Game

1970 -- The Melon Tossing Game

1971 -- Bitter Melons

1972 -- Debe's Tantrum

1972 -- Men Bathing

1972 -- Playing With Scorpions

1972 -- A Rite of Passage

1972 -- The Wasp Nest

1974 -- Baobab Play

1974 -- Children Throw Toy Assegais

1974 -- The Meat Fight

1974 -- Tug-Of-War

1980 -- N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman

1985 -- Pull Ourselves Up Or Die Out

1990 -- To Hold Our Ground: A Field Report

1991 -- Peabody Museum !Kung San Exhibit Video

2002 -- A Kalahari Family

In addition to Marshall's many published films on the Ju/'hoansi, he was also involved in a variety of other film projects. He shot and co-directed Titicut Follies, a film by Fredrick Wiseman. Working in association with the Lemburg Center for Violence Studies at Brandeis University, he shot and directed a series of short films about a police squad in Pittsburgh, PA, known as the Pittsburgh Police series. He also shot and directed If It Fits, a film about the failing shoe industry in Haverhill, MA. Marshall was also the subject of two television programs: Bushmen of the Kalahari, a National Geographic special which aired in the United States, and a Japanese program called Forty Years in the Kalahari, part of the television series, Our Wonderful World. All of these, as well as Marshall's Ju/'hoan films, are included in this filmography.

PITTSBURGH POLICE SERIES

1970 -- Inside/Outside Station 9

1971 -- Three Domestics

1971 -- Vagrant Woman

1972 -- 901/904

1972 -- Investigation of a Hit and Run

1973 -- After the Game

1973 -- The 4th, 5th, & Exclusionary Rule

1973 -- A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding

1973 -- Henry Is Drunk

1973 -- The Informant

1973 -- A Legal Discussion of a Hit and Run

1973 -- Manifold Controversy

1973 -- Nothing Hurt But My Pride

1973 -- Two Brothers

1973 -- $21 or 21 Days

1973 -- Wrong Kid

1973 -- You Wasn't Loitering

OTHER FILMS

1967 -- Titicut Follies (Co-Director, Cinematographer; film by Fredrick Wiseman)

1972 -- Ghana Drumming (uncompleted; collaboration with Nicholas England)

1974 -- Bushmen of the Kalahari (by Wolper Productions for National Geographic)

1975 -- Vermont Kids (series of short films; released in 2007)

1976 -- Festival of American Folklife (uncompleted; shot for Smithsonian Institution)

1978 -- If It Fits

1988 -- Our Wonderful World: Forty Years in the Kalahari (by Nippon A-V Productions)

Related Materials:

The Human Studies Film Archives holds several related collections, including:

• The Nicholas England Collection, which consists of audio recordings from 1951-1961. This collection contains both originals and duplicates of audio tapes recorded during the Marshall Expeditions. (2005.9) • The Journal of Robert Gesteland, kept during the Marshall !Kung Expedition VI, 1957-58. (2007.17) • Master copies of the full film record of Bushmen of the Kalahari (1974), a television program featuring John Marshall's 1973 visit to the /Gwi San of Botswana, produced by Wolper Productions for National Geographic. (2008.12) • Reference copies of the full video record of Our Wonderful World: Forty Years in the Desert, Nippon A-V's 1988 Japanese television program about John Marshall and the Ju/Wa Bushman Development Foundation. (2009.2.1) • Master copies of the videotape "library" kept by John Marshall for reference and stock footage purposes. Compiled from various sources, the videos include news programs, documentaries, and raw footage of Ju/'hoansi and other San peoples from the 1920's --1990's, as well as interviews with John Marshall and his mother, Lorna Marshall. (2009.2) • Additional audio recordings, including interviews with Ju/'hoansi made by John Marshall and others. (2009.3) • Full film record of [Ghana Drumming, 1972], an uncompleted project undertaken by John Marshall and Nicholas England, which documents a family of musicians. (2008.11)

The Papers of Timothy Asch, held at the National Anthropological Archives, contain information on Asch's work with John Marshall at Harvard University from 1959-1963, their collaboration in founding DER, and details on the use of Marshall's Ju/'hoan footage in the development of MACOS (Man, A Course of Study).

There are also several closely related collections held at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. These collections relate to the 1950's Marshall Expeditions and include: Expeditionary Notebooks and Journals of Lorna and Laurence Marshall; Journal of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; the Marshall Family Photograph Collection; and the Records of the South West Africa Expeditions, 1950- 1959. The Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, holds film prints of several of Marshall's published films on the Ju/'hoansi, including The Hunters.

Provenance:

The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection was received over several years of accessioning from different parties.

Restrictions:

The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played. Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.

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Topic:

Anthropology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Documentary films

Citation:

The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

Identifier:

HSFA.1983.11

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Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9837628c2-5993-4cb8-8a98-9d1139f46452

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-1983-11

Creator:

Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009  Search this

Names:

University of California, Los Angeles  Search this

Extent:

50 Film reels (50 completed films and 1 film series; 110,600 feet of original film outtakes (51 hours); 412 hours of audiotape; 31 digital books)

22 Linear feet (Papers and photographs)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Place:

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)

Argentina

Date:

1954-circa 2008

Summary:

Documentary filmmaker Jorge Prelorán was best known for his intimate approach to ethnographic film, a style known as "ethnobiography." The majority of Prelorán's films were shot in rural areas of Argentina, particularly the Andean highlands and the Pampas (plains), often in communities of mixed Indian and Spanish heritage. Prelorán documented a wide range of subjects, including art, folk crafts, agriculture, ranching, markets, religious rituals and festivals, and social and cultural change. This collection contains edited films and videos, film outtakes, audio tapes, photographic prints and transparencies, digital books, correspondence, production files, scripts, project files, and press clippings spanning 1954-2008.

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains edited films and videos, film outtakes, audio tapes, photographic prints and transparencies, digital books, correspondence, production files, scripts, project files, and press clippings spanning 1954-2008.

The majority of Prelorán's films were shot in rural areas of Argentina, particularly the Andean highlands and the Pampas (plains), often in communities of mixed Indian and Spanish heritage. Prelorán documented a wide range of subjects, including art, folk crafts, agriculture, ranching, markets, religious rituals and festivals, and social and cultural change. Several films focus on natural history and science. There are also a number of experimental and fiction films.

Prelorán formed close friendships with many of the subjects of his films and corresponded with them long after the films were completed. This is reflected in the paper records, as is Prelorán's wide circle of colleagues and collaborators, including anthropologists, musicians, animators, historians, painters, writers, photographers, current and former students at UCLA, and fellow filmmakers. The extensive collection of press clippings, screening notices, and festival catalogs documents Prelorán's influence in Argentina, Europe, and the United States.

In the series of digital books, Prelorán presents the personal stories of individuals involved in creative work. Some books feature subjects profiled in the films, updating or expanding on their stories.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 11 series: (1) Completed Films and Videos, 1954-circa 2008; (2) Film Outtakes, 1960s-1980s; (3) Audio, 1969-2008; (4) Correspondence, 1954-2005 (bulk 1967-1992); (5) Production Files, 1961-1998; (6) Project Files, 1967-1995; (7) UCLA, 1968-2005 (bulk 1980s); (8) Press Clippings, 1960-2005; (9) Photographs, 1961-2000; (10) Books, 1994-1998, undated; (11) Electronic Files, circa 2000-circa 2006

Biographical Note:

Documentary filmmaker Jorge Prelorán was best known for his intimate approach to ethnographic film, a style known as "ethnobiography." In films such as Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) (1970), Los Hijos de Zerda (Zerda's Children) (1974), and Zulay Frente al Siglo XXI (Zulay Facing the 21st Century) (1989), Prelorán's protagonists tell their personal stories, while also revealing the stories of their communities and cultures. Prelorán worked in Latin America and the United States, but primarily in his native country of Argentina. His career spanned from 1954 to 2008, including nearly twenty years as a film professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Prelorán was born May 28, 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, an engineer, was Argentine and had studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he met his wife, an American. Prelorán grew up speaking both Spanish and English. Initially pursuing a career in architecture, he studied at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. He made his first film, Venganza, with neighborhood friends in Buenos Aires in 1954. The film won the Beginner's Festival of Cine Club Argentina that same year. Prelorán was accepted as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied architecture there for one year. In 1956 he withdrew from UC Berkeley and was drafted into the US Army. Prelorán served in West Germany until 1958. Upon his return he changed educational plans and began formal study of filmmaking, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Pictures from UCLA in 1960.

Shortly before the end of his service in the US Army, Prelorán married Elsa Dondi, a former classmate from Buenos Aires. They lived together in Los Angeles until Elsa returned to Argentina for the birth of their daughter, Adriana, in 1961. The couple separated shortly thereafter.

Prelorán's professional career as a filmmaker began in 1961 with a commission from the Tinker Foundation of New York for a series of films on the Argentine gaucho. In the course of shooting for these films, Prelorán traveled extensively throughout Argentina, visiting many locations in Patagonia and in the northwest where he would later return to make many of his films. From 1963-1969, Prelorán was under contract at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán to produce educational films; he also produced a series of short films on Argentine folklife with support from Fondo Nacional de las Artes and under the mentorship of folklorist Augusto Raúl Cortazar, Ph.D.

In the late 1960s, Prelorán became involved with UCLA's Ethnographic Film Program and in 1970 he returned to UCLA as a lecturer for two semesters. Later that year he was a fellow at Harvard University's Film Study Center, where he produced the English-language version of Imaginero (Hermógenes Cayo). Prelorán was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1971 and 1975, and used those opportunities to produce quite a number of films, including Damacio Caitruz (Araucanians of Ruca Choroy).

Prelorán remarried in 1972. His wife, Mabel Freddi, became a collaborator on his films. She wrote the screenplay for Mi Tia Nora (My Aunt Nora) (1983) and co-directed Zulay Frente al Siglo XXI (Zulay Facing the 21st Century) (1989), among other credited and un-credited roles. After the Argentine military coup of March 1976 and the disappearances of fellow filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer and Mabel's niece, Haydee, the Preloráns became fearful for their own safety. They fled to the United States, a move that would become permanent. Prelorán accepted a position as associate professor at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. He later joined the faculty as a tenured professor.

During his time at UCLA, Prelorán was twice selected as a Fulbright Scholar, in 1987 and 1994. He continued to produce films, including the Academy Award-nominated documentary short Luther Metke at 94 (1980) and the 7-hour natural history television series Patagonia (1992). After retiring in 1994, Prelorán continued to mentor film students as Professor Emeritus; he also began work in a new medium, creating a series of digital books, "Nos = Otros" ("Sages Amongst Us") (unpublished), featuring individuals engaged in creative and educational pursuits.

Prelorán died at his home in Culver City, CA at the age of 75 on March 28, 2009.

Sources Consulted

UCLA, School of Theater, Film and Television. "Jorge Prelorán 1933 - 2009." Obituary. Last modified March 31, 2009. Accessed April 1, 2009. http://tft.ucla.edu/news/obituary

Jorge Prelorán Collection. Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Rivera, Fermín. Huellas Y Memoria de Jorge Prelorán. Documentary film. 2010.

Woo, Elaine."Jorge Prelorán dies at 75; Argentine filmmaker and former UCLA professor." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2009. Web. 29 Apr 2009.

1933 -- Born May 28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

1952-1954 -- Studies at the College of Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina

1954 -- Completes first film, Venganza, a fictional short

1955 -- Studies at the College of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

1956-1958 -- Drafted into United States Army, stationed in Schwetzingen, West Germany

1959-1960 -- Earns Bachelor of Arts in Motion Pictures from UCLA

1961-1963 -- Produces films on the Argentine gaucho for the Tinker Foundation, New York

1963-1969 -- Produces films at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina

1968 -- Attends the First International Colloquium on Ethnographic Film at UCLA

1969 -- Shoots film for The Warao People in Venezuela, under a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Ethnographic Film Program at UCLA

1970 -- Lecturer at UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television Fellow at the Film Study Center, Harvard University

1971 -- Receives first Guggenheim Fellowship; completes several film projects in Argentina

1975 -- Receives second Guggenheim Fellowship; continues filming in Argentina

1976 -- Moves to United States Associate professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

1978 -- Guest of Honor at the 2nd Margaret Mead Ethnographic Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, New York

1980 -- Academy Award nominee for Luther Metke at 94

1985 -- Guest at the White House for a State Dinner in honor of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin

1986 -- Naturalized as a United States citizen

1987 -- First selection as Fulbright Scholar; begins production of the series Patagonia, en Busca de su Remoto Pasado

1994 -- Second selection as Fulbright Scholar; completes pre-production for the narrative feature film "Vairoletto: The Last Gaucho Outlaw" Retires from UCLA as professor emeritus

2009 -- Dies on March 28 in Culver City, California

Related Materials:

The Human Studies Film Archives holds a copy of Fermín Rivera's edited biographical documentary film, Huellas y Memoria de Jorge Prelorán (HSFA 2015.1.27), as well as transcripts of interviews conducted with Jorge and Mabel Prelorán for the film (in Spanish).

The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, holds the original film for four titles Prelorán produced for the Tinker Foundation (New York, NY). These are: The Llanero; The Gaucho of Corrientes; The Gaucho of the Pampas; and The Gaucho of Salta. The Ransom Center has both English and Spanish versions of these titles. These four films were preserved in 2010 and 2011 with funding from the Tinker Foundation. HSFA holds high quality video masters of all four titles. A fifth film produced for the Tinker Foundation, El Gaucho Argentino, Hoy (The Argentine Gaucho, Today), is held at the HSFA in its Spanish version only.

The Arthur Hall Collection at Temple University, Phildadelphia, Pennsylvania and Ile Ife Films in Belfast, Maine hold a copy of The Unvictorious One that differs from the two versions held at the HSFA.

Provenance:

This collection was donated to the Human Studies Film Archives in two accessions. The first accession, 2007-10, contains the edited films, outtakes, audio recordings, papers, and photographs and was donated by Jorge Prelorán. Materials had been stored at Prelorán's home office and home editing suite before they were packed by the processing archivist and sent to the HSFA. The second accession, 2011-07, contains the digital books and some additional photographs. This accession was donated by Mabel Prelorán. These materials had also been stored at Prelorán's home office and were sent to the HSFA by Mabel Prelorán.

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.

Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and the digital books.

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Rights:

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Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Documentary films  Search this

Biography  Search this

Citation:

The Jorge Prelorán films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for film preservation and finding aid provided by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

HSFA.2007.10

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Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc95d05b888-ed6e-48ee-b368-8629661849e2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-2007-10

Creator:

Laszlo, Andreas E.  Search this

Extent:

24 Film reels (7 hours 40 minutes, color silent sound; 16,024 feet, 16mm)

Culture:

Cree  Search this

Chokwe (African people)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Silent films

Sound films

Place:

North America

Africa, Central

British Columbia

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Date:

1948-1954

Scope and Contents:

Collection consists of films shot by Dr. Andreas E. Laszlo in Africa and British Columbia. Collection also includes a travel diary and slides.

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 Lucille Phelps Laszlo in 1995 and 1999. Slides transferred from the National Anthropological Archives in 2003 (HSFA accession 2003.04).

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

Sound films

Citation:

Andreas E. Laszlo films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.1995.04

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Andreas E. Laszlo films

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc94da56124-2857-46ca-87e6-695397f6763b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-1995-04

Collection Creator:

Laszlo, Andreas E.  Search this

Extent:

21 Film reels (6 hours 46 minutes, color silent sound; 14,249 feet, 16mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Film reels

Date:

1953

Scope and Contents:

Film Footage and assembled lecture film from an expedition to Portuguese West Africa.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Rites and ceremonies ; Rituals ; Puberty rites ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Marriage customs and rites g ; Domestic and family life ; Villages Africa ; Dance ; Music ; Fishing ; Hunting ; Animals ; Missions

Local Number:

HSFA 1995.4.1

Collection 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 Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Andreas E. Laszlo films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Andreas E. Laszlo films

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9313e6ba0-a6c4-4990-9fe8-da5432bdbbe3

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-1995-04-ref1

Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

290 Photographs (black-and-white and color)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

South Asia

India

Date:

circa 1977

Scope and Contents:

Photographs of Rajasthan and surrounding area in India.

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 1986.13.97

Provenance:

Received from the National Institutes of Health and the National Anthropological Film Center 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.

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Topic:

Families  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

National Anthropological Film Center photographs of Rajasthan, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.1986.13RAJA

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9fd3a9398-1acb-4cd6-a795-f891c4888a7b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-1986-13raja

Creator:

American University (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Miller, Norman N., 1933-  Search this

Extent:

484 Film reels (color sound; 276,002 feet, 16mm)

Linear feet

Culture:

Aymara [Chulumani (Chulemani)]  Search this

Boran (African people)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Sound films

Place:

Africa

Kenya

Asia

Hong Kong

Afghanistan

South America

Bolivia

Taiwan

Date:

1972-1974

Scope and Contents:

Edited films, camera original film outtakes and uncut film footage (Afghanistan and Bolivia only), from the Faces of Change film series produced by the American University Field Staff. 27 edited films were created from filming projects in five diverse geographic locations: Afghanistan (the Maldar), Bolivia (Aymara), Kenya (Boran), Taiwan, and Soko Islands (Hong Kong) and are based around the themes rural society, education, rural economy, beliefs and women.

Supplementary materials: Study guides, still photographs, sound recordings, annotations, translations, reviews, essays, production logs and 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.

Local Numbers:

HSFA 2014.2

Provenance:

Received from Norman Miller in multiple accessions in the following years: 1975 (accession number 1975-002); 1986 (accession number 1986-010); 2005 (accession number 2006-005); and 2014 (accession number 2014-002).

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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Topic:

Education  Search this

Agriculture  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound films

Citation:

American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

HSFA.2014.02

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American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9810dc5fc-6717-44f3-8f1e-433116751ea0

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-2014-02

Collection Creator:

American University (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Miller, Norman N., 1933-  Search this

Extent:

1 Film reel (color sound; 612 feet, 16mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Film reels

Date:

1974

Scope and Contents:

Edited film explores the paradox of Aymara women's lives in the Bolivian highlands. Women believe the dominant Hispanic ideal that women should be subservient to men and to only undertake tasks appropriate to their limited strength and intelligence even as Aymara culture recognizes equal gender contributions to the community and family survival through cooperation and reciprocity.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Domestic and family life ; Towns, villages and other settlements

Credits: Smith, Hubert filmmaker (1938- ) ; Reichline, Neil, cameraman

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 2014.2.9

Collection 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 Rights:

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Collection Citation:

American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection

American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 2014-002

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc979b8c4f9-e51a-4eda-b6bd-825dfb271512

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2014-02-ref6

Collection Creator:

American University (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Miller, Norman N., 1933-  Search this

Extent:

84 Film reels (17 hours, color sound; 36,800 feet, 16mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Film reels

Date:

1973

Scope and Contents:

Full film record of the American Universities Field Staff "Faces of Change" film series in Bolivia. Footage was shot in a high Andes valley of western Bolivia in the villages of Ayata (a primarily mestizo town) and Vitocota (an Aymara Indian community), both located in Munecas Province, Department of La Paz. The project explored the nature of Altiplano social structure as manifest between the residents of these related communities, focusing on social and cultural factors which unite as well as divide them. Documentation includes: planting and harvesting of potatoes and ocha; manufacture of chicha (corn beer); sheep herding; market days; the Fiesta of Santiago held conjointly between Vitocota and Ayata and the Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata; dispute management and settlement which accompanies these celebrations; syncretic rites (using coca leaves) performed at the beginning of the Aymara year (August 1); the role of Aymara women in the Andean economy; and the syncretic nature of Altiplano Bolivian religious and magical beliefs and practices. The edited films VIRACOCHA, THE CHILDREN KNOW, POTATO PLANTERS, ANDEAN WOMEN, THE SPIRIT POSSESSION OF ALEJANDRO MAMANI, and MAGIC AND CATHOLICISM were produced from this film project.

Legacy Keywords: Syncretism Aymara Bolivia ; Agriculture Bolivia ; Harvests potatoes ocha division of harvest Bolivia ; Festivals religious Aymara mestizo Fiesta of Santiago in Vitocota processions Dea de la Bandeta (Flag Day) Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata Bolivia ; Curing brujos Bolivia ; Drinking social festivals ritualistic drunkenness Bolivia ; Alcoholic beverages chicha manufacture of fermented cane juice drinking of Bolivia ; Chicha drinking manufacture of festivals Bolivia ; Coca use of Bolivia ; Divination use of coca in Aymara Bolivia ; Weaving looms Aymara Bolivia ; Disputes settlement of boundaries Bolivia ; Spirit possession suicide Bolivia ; Musical instruments flutes drums playing the kena-kena(straigt flute) festivals Bolivia ; Herding pigs sheep llamas alpacas Bolivia ; Markets transportation of produce to shopping at trade Bolivia ; Mills sugar cane Bolivia ; Dancing Festival of Santiago mestizo Indian snake dance traditional Bolivia ; Sports soccer Bolivia ; Planting potatoes ochas corn methods consideration of saints' days in Bolivia ; Abortion ideas about birth control Bolivia ; Ploughing Bolivia ; Haciendas prohibition of system Bolivia ; Cultivation corn Bolivia ; Labour mestizo hired conditions division of between men and women conflict of with education wages Bolivia ; Originarios land-owners Bolivia2HRAF ; Music hymns brass bands phonograph records singing of patriotic songs Bolivia2HRAF ; Magic divinations sacrifices invocations magical objects Bolivia2HRAF ; Libations offering of chanting Bolivia ; Sacrifice invocations Bolivia2HRAF ; Washing clothes Bolivia2HRAF ; Churches icons Bolivia2HRAF ; Costume dance masks Bolivia2HRAF ; Masks dance characters Bolivia2HRAF ; Prayer lamentations Santiago Bolivia ; Shelters lamars Festival of Santiago Bolivia2HRAF ; Ritual lamars arcos coca Bolivia2HRAF ; Children treatment of relations between mestizo and Aymara education of Bolivia2HRAF ; Drunkenness festivals attitudes towards Bolivia2HRAF ; Games soccer Bolivia ; Police Aymara mestizos' relations with Bolivia2HRAF ; Debts collection of Bolivia2HRAF ; Icons Santiago San Lorenzo Bolivia ; Visions of Santiago Bolivia ; Social system Agrarian reform criticism of Bolivia2HRAF ; Medicine western travelling "physician" mestizo Bolivia2HRAF ; Education directives schools instruction conflict of with labour teachers language of instruction Bolivia2HRAF ; Conversation Bolivia ; Food eating boiled corn eating soup eating boiled calla eating freeze-dried ocha buthchering lamb Alliance for Progress donations Bolivia2HRAF ; Schools Bolivia2HRAF ; Households chores Bolivia2HRAF ; Houses adobe construction of habitability Bolivia ; Meat butchering of lamb Bolivia2HRAF ; Butchering lamb Bolivia ; Wills and testaments drafting of division of estate Bolivia2HRAF ; Spouses physical abuse of Bolivia2HRAF ; Suicide spirit possession Bolivia2HRAF ; Boundaries fields disputes Bolivia2HRAF ; Military conscription Bolivia2HRAF

Credits: Smith, Hubert filmmaker (1938- ) ; Reichline, Neil, cameraman

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 2014.2.3

Collection 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 Rights:

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Collection Citation:

American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection

American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 2014-002

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9d4f72e1c-8746-42ff-ad85-2a861f69493c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-hsfa-2014-02-ref7

Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

66 Film reels (color sound, 16mm)

Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Slides

Photographs

Sound films

Place:

South Asia

Tibet Region

Ladākh (India)

Date:

1978-1981

Topic:

Buddhist monks  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Sound films

Identifier:

HSFA.1986.13LDKH

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc927424627-dc0b-472c-8568-c6a542e6d071

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-hsfa-1986-13ldkh

Collection Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

65 Film reels (color sound; 71,969 feet, 16mm)

1,273 Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Film reels

Slides

Date:

1978

Scope and Contents:

Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Research film project documents daily life and subsistence activities of villagers and monastic life and ceremonials at the Buddhist monastery in Mathoo, Ladakh, India. The edited film, LADAKH VILLAGE MORNING, was produced from this footage.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Buddhism ; monastery ; Religion ; Rites and ceremonies ; Monks Buddhism ; Cookery ; Animal husbandry ; Agriculture ; Subsistence farming ; Tea ; New Year ceremony ; Dress adornment

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.3

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

Archival Repository:

Human Studies Film Archives

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9fe7465f7-9f32-41b2-9220-31813cb50392

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Collection Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Date:

1978 July 18

Scope and Contents:

Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1Art, buddhist diety with white face and clouds of blue and green behind him, mostly wearing red, a dragon with a birds face is beside him, has hat of red with a tuff of white hair coming out of top; 2 Art, a buddhist diety with an orange face holding an orange stick with smoke all around him, set in a landscape; 3 Art, a buddhist diety with a red face and clouds of blue and greent behind him holding a gold cup with a gold lid, has a gold crown with a red hat; 4 Art, a buddhist painted woman without a shirt on, a crown with snakes and holding a red, orange, and white object, is on edge of painting so part of red border is in photo; 5 Art, painted hand strumming guitar that has a dragon painted on it; 6 Art, three statues of monks with large red hats, middle one holding its hand up in mudras (hand gestures); 7 Art, Buddha statue in yellow with white scarf on his lap and two monk statues aon either side of him, infront of statues from #6; 8-9 monk statue in tall red hat with white scarf over his arm and offerings infront of him; 10 Art, low shot of #7; 11 boy monk walking under a covered area of the courtyard past a paingint on the wall carrying 2 pots; 12 column details and ceiling with a boys back in the foreground; 13 column with a monk walking past; 14 boys sitting on ledge of balcony, shot across courtyard; 15-16 monk in foreground with back to camera, out of focus, behind him a monk is talking to someone; 17 monk talking, looking at camera; 18 boy partially lit by sunlight holding pots and looking past the camera; 19 two men standing, one with long hair, the other with a tan cap and tan sweater; 20 Art, gilded sculpture of buddhist diety with crown of turquoise; 21-22 building with lions painted on the outside (temple??); 23 landscape, village in valley; 24 building in foreground, valley in background; 25 monks leaning out of window into courtyard, yellow building; 26 valley, green fields from top of village (stacked buildings and terraces on hillside);27 mountain with little vegetarian and marjo erosion; 28 landscape of mountain and valley fields with building in foreground, shot through a window; 29 details of top of column; 30 casted objects of metal and stone (offerings?) infront of painting of red, white and black dancing skeletons; 31 two men leaning against faded painted walls, one has tan cap on, other one wearing red robe; 32 four children standing infront of stone raised porch; 33 long shot of valley turning around mountains with green firles and vilalge in foreground; 35-36 whitewashed buildings with woman and child standing infront of them; 37 woman washing child in small stream

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 86.13.3-1OP

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

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Human Studies Film Archives

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EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Date:

1978 July 18

Scope and Contents:

Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-3 Art, statue of monk with long ears, one hand to his side holding a cup, the other infront of him, wearing an orange shirt and a red robe; 5-6 Art, statue with hands infront of it, tall red hat and gold skin wearing brown cape; 8-9 Art, gilded statue with small painted red hat with blue trim, holding a dorje (small scepter) and has one hand infront of him, wearing orand and blue cape; 10 Art, black and white photograph of monk infront of busy pattern cloth; 11-12 Art, row of statues, 5 with gold faces and tall red hats, Buddha in yellow with tall monk statue by him; 13 Art, same statue as #6; 14-18 monks sitting with a boy monk standing behind him; 19-21 boy sitting on balcony ledge of yellow building, shot taken from patio below; 22-25 monk with red robe over gold standing near front of dukang (main prayer room) talking to other monk; 26 Art, painting of buddhist diety with hair piled up, white face, gold crown, white clouds behind her, holding white cup; 27-28 Art, statues of gilded dieties, diety is black with large mouth and fangs, crown and red hat; 29 Art, diety in gilded robe, diety has white smiling face and a crown; 30 whitewashed buildings of village, focused on courtyard; 31-34 Temple (?) with white lions painted on the outside; 35 white washed buildings; 35 monks looking through window of yellow building into courtyard; 36 art, painting of hand strumming guitar

Time: 10am

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 86.13.3-2OP

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

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Human Studies Film Archives

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc9959b47f3-4a5c-4ee3-abc4-67ec5ab0b40c

EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Date:

1978 July 18

Scope and Contents:

Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1 girl leading three sheep through field past a man who is crouching onthe path; 2-4 buddhist diety carving on the cliff face of a mountain, in foreground white washed building; 5-8 buddhist diety carving on the cliff face of a mountain; 9 valley with road and small whitewashed buildings along the road in a line; 11-16 landscape, vilalge and monastery on hill in valley; 18 art, wheel design with three eyed red faced diety above the circle, a red center with a bird, snake and dark animal, landscape in design; 20 Art, a buddhist diety with a red face and blue and green clouds behind him, holding a gold object, wearing a gold crown and a red hat; 21 Art, painting of man with white cloth over his hair holding a white horn and not wearing a shirt, holding a blue basket of colorful fruit; 22 Art, painting of face of a dragon with an orange face and green curls with a cloth in its mouth; 23 painting of peacock on a white background with peacock feather pattern in background; 26 Art, same dragon as in 22 but resting chin on cloth; 27 Art, painting of buddhist diety with a large mouth and fangs, orange with flowing red hair with a raised staff; 29-32 boy sitting on ledge of balcony of yellow building, shot from patio below and across courtyard; 34-36 old man in purple robe with tall black hat; 37 long shot of valley with white washed buildings

Time: 10am

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 86.13.3-3OP

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

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Human Studies Film Archives

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EDAN-URL:

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Collection Creator:

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

Dorjee, Ragpa  Search this

Schecter, Steven  Search this

Sorenson, E. Richard  Search this

Extent:

Slides (color, 35mm)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Date:

1978 July 18

Scope and Contents:

Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 monks looking out a window of a yellow building; 3-5 buildings shot from above, showing houses and plants and peole; 6-10 Art, statue of buddhist diety with legs crossed, hands infront, gold crown, darker skin, white scarf on it lap; 11-12 older paintings on wall, frescos that are chipping of buddhist dieties; 13-14 statue of buddhist diety with blue skin and gold crown, female goddess with necklace and orange shoulder wrap, legs crossed sitting; 15 same as 6-10; 16 carving of diety with owl-like face and wings, feathers on legs, looking down; 17 statue from 6-10 below birdlike carving from 16 in elaborate shrine with monkeys and animals carved; 18 carving of large three eyed black diety with red nose and behind the eyes with skulls on the crown and 4 arms, white scarves on its arms and lap; 20-22 man looking at camera leaning against an old cracking painted wall; 23 close up of the carving in #16 centered right above the sitting figure with the crown; 24 same as 20-22; 25 carving side of wall of dog (?); 26 close up of diety cave in 6-10; 27 same carving as 18; 29-30 old painting or tapestry hanging up with buddhist diesties on it; 31 alleyway between two building with door and window; 32-33 shot up the valley at climbing whitewashed buildings; 34-35 whitewashed buildings against the mountains and valley; 36-37 the valley and a road on a hillside, 37 is double exposed

Time: 2:45pm

General:

Local Numbers: HSFA 86.13.3-4OP

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National Anthropological Film Center films and slides of Ladakh

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Human Studies Film Archives

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EDAN-URL:

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