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Digitized Content Matthew Stirling collection
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Creators:
Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Stewart, Richard H. (Richard Hewett), 1901-2004
Dates:
1926-1950
Size:
Film reels (9 hours 3 minutes, black-and-white silent sound; 18,296 feet, 16mm)
2 Videocassettes (1 hour 2 minutes, color sound)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1987.04
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of film and video created and collected by Matthew Stirling in Papua New Guinea, Mexico, and Panama. Collection also contains annotations (recorded narratives). 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 doc...

Digitized Content Penn State educational films
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Dates:
1950-1979
Size:
Film reels (color black-and-white sound, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1991.08
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of at least 15 film prints retired from Penn State's Audio-Visual Services Library. Comprises two accessions: 1991.08 and 1993.15. 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 As an historical document, its contents may be at...

Digitized Content Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
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Creators:
Towles, Joseph A.
Turnbull, Colin M.
Dates:
circa 1950-1972
Size:
Film reels (32,350 ft)
Video recordings
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1991.13
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage shot by Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles among the Mbuti Pygmies, Zaire and the Ik, Uganda, between 1954 and 1972. Footage documents the nkumbi initiations among the Mbuti, villager-Pygmy interactions; subsistence and daily life among the Ik pastoralists of northwestern Uganda. Supplementary materials: associated texts and annotations (re...

Digitized Content John and Naomi Bishop collection
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Creators:
Bishop, Naomi Hawes
Bishop, John Melville
Dates:
1977-2009
Size:
Film reels (color sound, 16mm)
Video recordings
Sound recordings
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1987.07
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Edited films, outtakes, stills, and narration tracks by John and Naomi Bishop. Includes footage shot in the village of Melamchi, Nepal, for the film Himalayan Herders. Supplementary material: Supplementary materials: audio tapes, 35mm slides, black-and-white stills. Annotatations (recorded narratives) are by John Bishop, documentary filmmaker,...

Digitized Content Powerhouse for God
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Creators:
Dornfield, Barry
Dates:
1988-1989
Size:
45 Film reels (color sound, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1989.15
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of the edited film, Powerhouse for God, and related outtakes. The films document a Baptist pastor and his congregation in Virginia's northern Blue Ridge Mountains and center on the worship service and devotional performances. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the cont...

Digitized Content Charles Boys films
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Creators:
Boys, Charles
Dates:
circa 1929-1946
Size:
3 Film reels (1 hour, color black-and-white silent; 1886 feet, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1989.20
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Amateur films taken by Charles Boys of Latin America, Hawaii, and Northwestern U. S. 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 offensi...

Digitized Content Films of Black Hills rodeo and Dog Feast
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Dates:
1938
1942
Size:
Film reels (16 minutes, color silent; 366 feet, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1988.10
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage taken at a July 4th rodeo in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Parade shots at the rodeo include Ben Black Elk in buckskins and war bonnet and truncated versions of the war and kettle dance as well as a fancy dancer. Footage also includes a Sioux Indian Dog feast held by Chief Roan Bear at the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, showing prepara...

Digitized Content Tip top of the Earth: Arctic Alaskan Eskimo Educational Series
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Creators:
Van Valin, William B., 1878-
Dates:
1912-1918
Size:
10 Film reels (black-and-white silent; 6,950 feet, 35mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1986.05
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series by Van Valin, is known under the main title TIP TOP OF THE EARTH: Alaskan Eskimo Educational Series. Series includes the titles: SCENES AT NOME, ALAS...

Digitized Content Lewis Cotlow films
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Creators:
Cotlow, Lewis, 1898-1987
Dates:
1949-circa 1969
Size:
Film reels (8 hours 16 minutes, color sound; 17,400 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1985.11
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Original film, prints, elements, sound materials and associated texts from the following films produced by explorer Lewis Cotlow: SAVAGE SPLENDOR, ZANZABUKU, VANISHING AFRICA, TWIGHLIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE, PRIMITIVE PARADISE, JUNGLE HEADHUNTERS, HIGH ARCTIC, IN SEARCH OF THE PRIMITIVE. Please note that the contents of the collection and the lang...

Digitized Content Cheyenne Indian Sun Dance film
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Dates:
circa 1937
Size:
1 Film reel (silent, color, 250 feet, 16mm)
1 Video recording (11 minutes, silent, color)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1987.12
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage of a northern Cheyenne Sundance probably filmed between the mid- to late 1930s in LameDeer, Montana. Documentation includes encampment and tarp-covered sundance lodge, both exterior and interior shots; male participants taking coals from the lodge fire; dancers with eagle bone whistles; shots of Indian and white spectators; scenes of fancy ...

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