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:
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16mm amateur film taken by Dr. Guy W. Leadbetter, Sr. in Mexico (Mayan ruins), Hopi and Penobscot dances and Mexico City.
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Biographical / Historical:
Guy W. Leadbetter, Sr. was born in Bangor, Maine, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1916 and attended Johns Hopkins Medical School. He was an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, D.C. and a friend of Mayan archaeologist Sylvanus Morley. Leadbetter also gave lectures on astronomy for the National Park Service.
Provenance:
Received from Dr. Guy W. Leadbetter, Jr. in 2002.
Restrictions:
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17 Reels (16mm, black and white/color, silent. camera original reversal/print, 18,180 feet)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Reels
Home movies
Photographs
Place:
Hawaii
Mexico
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)
New Zealand
Guatemala
Japan
South America
Central America
North America
Oceania
United States
New York
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Asia
Date:
1937-1961
Summary:
Little is known about the filmmaker Joseph Ross He travelled extensively and also had an intense interest in gardens and gardening. The films reflect these interests. Although most document his travels, several were shot around his home of gardens being planted and mature gardens.
Scope and Contents:
The colletion consists of footage presumably shot by Joseph Ross during his travels and around his home. Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Tahiti, Mexico, and Guatemala are featured in the travel films. The travel films include tourist footage as well as limited documenation of local peoples and traditional cultural activities.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in two series:(1) Motion Picture Films, 1937-1961; (2) Photographs, 1947
Biographical / Historical:
Little is known about the filmmaker Joseph Ross. He was the great uncle of the donor's wife and he owned a business in Albany, New York. He travelled extensively and also had an intense interest in gardens and gardening. The films reflect these interests. Although most document his travels, several were shot around his home of gardens being planted and finished gardens.
Provenance:
These films were donated to the National Anthropological Film Collection by Jim Shreve in 2018.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use although only reference copies may be used. For more information contact the staff at HSFA@si.edu .
Joseph Ross Travel Film Collection, National Anthropogical Film Collection (fomerly the Human Studies Film Archives), National Anthropological Archives
Film footage and edited films of Hubert Smith. Film projectes represented in the collection include Single Parent, The Living Maya, and a work on leadership of the Aymara of Boliva, made from the American Unviersity Field Staff Faces of Change Series films.
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Related Materials:
The Human Studies Film Archives also holds the American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection.
Provenance:
Received from Hubert Smith in 1976 (accession 1976-003), 1985 (accession 1985-008), 2013 (accession 2013-015).
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.
University of California Extension Media Center (EMC) film collection
Creator:
University of California (System). Extension Media Center Search this
Extent:
Film reels (black-and-white color sound; 36,888 feet)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound films
Place:
Africa, Southern
Africa, West
Central America
East Asia
Europe
Middle East
North America
Oceania
South America
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Date:
circa 1950-1980
Scope and Contents:
Collection consists of films distributed by the University of California Extension Media Center.
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Provenance:
Received from the University of California at Berkeley Extension Media Center in 1993.
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:
Sound films
Citation:
University of California Extension Media Center (EMC) film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Cut and uncut film footage shot around the world by Milton E. Merriman, mostly in the twenties but spanning 1920-1952.
Most of the footage is of China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. The remainder features the Middle East; Europe and Great Bitain; Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South America; and the United States. The edited footage was used by Mr. Merriman in his travel lectures presented during the 1950s. Documentation ranges from developed urban centers to more rural areas and includes film of cultural festivals, marketplace scenes, and childhood activities. Contains detailed footage of monuments and architecture as well as aerial footage of landscapes.
Legacy Keywords: Travel ; Landscapes ; Landscape aerial shots of landscape ; Marketplaces ; Cities and towns ; Rural areas ; Architecture, Domestic ; Architecture, Colonial ; Architecture, Commercial ; Children ; Military China ; Fire
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Provenance:
Received from Paul H. Merriman in 1976.
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:
Travelogs
silent films
Citation:
Milton E. Merriman travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection consists of outtakes from the MGM documentaries, The Man Hunters, Childhood, the Enchanted Years, and The Lost World, as well as the edited films The Man Hunters and Kifaru the Black Rhinoceros. Collection also contains associated texts, sound recordings, production logs, and field notes.
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Provenance:
Received from Nicholas Noxon in 1987 and Warner Brothers Technical Operations in 2007.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
Citation:
Nicholas Noxon and Irwin Rosten collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection consists of amateur travel film shot in the 1950s-1970s by Floyd Henry Wells.
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Biographical / Historical:
Floyd Henry Wells was a retired insurance salesman and a member of Wally Byam Caravan Club of Airstream trailers.
Provenance:
Donated by David McCuistion 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.
Full video record documenting sign language in a Maya village for Robert Johnson's linguistic research. video was recorded in conjunction with Hubert Smith's Yucatec Maya Film Project.
Supplementary materials: 5 notebooks.
Legacy keywords: Children ; Villages Mexico ; Sign language ; Deafness
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Local Numbers:
HSFA 2012.2.1
Provenance:
Received from Robert Johnson in 2011.
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.
McBryde, F. Webster (Felix Webster), 1908-1995 Search this
Extent:
Film reels (color silent; 9,030 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Silent films
Travelogs
Place:
Central America
Guatemala
Date:
circa 1940
Scope and Contents:
Papers, films and photographs of Felix Webster McBryde, cultural geographer, mostly related to his work in South and Central America. Also some papers of wife, Frances McBryde.
Supplementary materials: water colors, paper records.
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Biographical / Historical:
F. Webster McBryde was a geographer who earned his geography degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1940. In 1943 he founded the American Society for Professional Geographers (ASPG). Aside from his research of markets in villages in the Gautemalan Lake Atitlan area and his teaching geography at Ohio State University from 1937 to 1942, his career was primarily as a consultant.
During WWII he worked as a senior geographer in military intelligence in the War Department. After the war he became director of the Smithsonian Institution's Institute of Social Anthropology in Lima, Peru. After three years in that position he became chief geographer for the Latin American program of the United States Bureau of the Census that included his establishing the Ecuadorian Institute of Anthropology and Geography in Quito. He also took on consulting work in ecology and environmental issues that included being the chief of the physical and culural branch of the natural resources division of the Inter-American Geodetic Survey of the U.S. Army and field director of the Bioenvironmental Program of the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Sea Level Canal Studies in Panama and Colombia for the Battelle Memorial Institute.
In 1970 he founded the McBryde Center for Human Ecology and continued working for the Battelle Memorial Institute as well as other clients. New consulting work included preparing ecological studies affecting the tourist industry in Jamaica and the environmental problems of the Cerro Colorado Copper Mine in Panama for the United Nations. He conducted personal research in the domestication of plants, particularly the origin of maize in several Latin American countries.
Because of his extensive knowledge of Central American he occasionally served as advisor to government officials from those countries. He also worked on and developed new world map projections that more accurately portrayed the curvature of the earth.
Provenance:
Received from John M. McBryde 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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Genre/Form:
silent films
Travelogs
Citation:
Felix Webster McBryde films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film and footage focused on Huichol religious ceremonies as practiced by the Huichol of San Andres Coamiata, Jalisco, Mexico.
Supplementary materials: associated texts, still film, annotations (recorded narratives), field notes.
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Provenance:
Bulk of materials received from Steven Dreben 1989. Video of edited film received from Hollywood Home Entertainment in 1993. Reels of edited film received from Thomas Perry in 2007.
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.
Footage shot by Mary Elmendorf in Chan Kom, Yucatec, Mexico between 1970 and 1976. Ethnographic footage documents significant features of ritual and daily life in Chan Kom.
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Local Numbers:
HSFA 1990-008
Provenance:
Received from Mary Elmendorf in 1990 and 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:
silent films
Citation:
Mary Elmendorf collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Film reels (black-and-white silent; 7125 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Silent films
Place:
Africa
Asia
Caribbean Area
Central America
South America
Oceania
Panama Canal (Panama)
Date:
circa 1925-1927
Scope and Contents:
Footage taken on an around the world trip includes the following locations: Africa, Java, Bali, Singapore, Hawaii, China, Zanzibar Island, Jamaica, Trinidad, South America, and Panama Canal.
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Provenance:
Received from Margaret M. Hitchock in 1993.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
silent films
Citation:
Reuben Miller, Jr. films of world travel, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Footage created by unknown travelers. Travellers begin their trip on what appears to be a Caribbean Island, then travel to Mexico (Mexico City, Teotihucan, Xochilmilco, bullfight, Michocan) through the Panama Canal down along the western coast of South America (crossing the equator ceremony on board ship) to an unidentified Peruvian city to the Andes (ruins) and finally to Brazil. Filmed are many street scenes and markets; cities, towns and villages; countryside, port activities and colonial buildings.
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Local Number:
HSFA 1993.2.1
Provenance:
Received from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii in 1993.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
silent films
Citation:
Central and South American travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Amateur film shot by Scudder McKeel of Central America, Sun dance and misc. Collection also contains still film and clippings.
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Provenance:
Received from the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1992 and 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.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
silent films
Citation:
Scudder Mekeel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Collection consists of 23 films created or collected by the Explorers Club. Films include DJUKA - Morton Kahn, SWEENY, AFGHANISTAN, RIDDLE OF MAYAN CAVE, WONDERS OF THE SAHARA, JAMBO PORINI: EAST AFRICA, MEXICO, TIBET-FORBIDDEN TIBET, PRIMITIVE PEOPLES OF MATTO GRASSO, A STORY OF THE TROPICS, LA JEUNE FORET, FROM NEW LANDS TO OLD, HIGH ARTIC, ARTIC EXPEDITION, ANTARCTICA HERE WE COME, Cotlow outs, AFRICA, ETHIOPIAN JUBILEE, SECOND BYRD EXPEDITION, ARTIC FILM-1956, Lindbergh flight.
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Provenance:
Received from the Explorers Club 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:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
silent films
Citation:
Explorers Club film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
COLUMBUS (1923), THE HOAX (1932), [HUNTING IN AFRICA] (194?), [A MATTER OF MURDER] (196?), [UNID. SCHUYLER: COFFEE DOCUMENTARY] (1926), and [UNID. SCHUYLER: DATING RITUALS IN NEW GUINEA] (196?) from the AFI/John B. Schuyler III Collection.
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Provenance:
Received from American Film Institute (National Center for Film and Video Preservation) 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.
Amateur films taken by Charles Boys of Latin America, Hawaii, and Northwestern U. S.
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Biographical / Historical:
Charles Boys was a medical doctor.
Provenance:
Received from Jonathan Boys in 1989.
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:
Charles Boys films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Footage depicting Blackfeet Indians, Mexico, and Guatemala shot by John Wheeler and his wife during 1939-1940.
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Provenance:
Received from John L. Wheeler in 1985.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
silent films
Travelogs
Citation:
Wheeler Family films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Footage duplicates [Frank Roberts' Footage of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, c. 1932] refer to 86.12.4 RF, [Frank Roberts' Footage of Allantown, Arizona, 1930-1933] refer to 86.12.3 1-2 RF, [Frank Roberts' Footage of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennesee, c. 1933-1934] refer to 86.12.2 RF, and [Frank Roberts' Footage of Zuni, New Mexico, c. 1931] refer to 86.12.5 RF. Also contains footage of the Smithsonian sponsored Missouri River Basin Salvage Archaeology Project conducted by Frank H.H. Roberts. Documented are the large-scale excavations at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado. Evidence for PaleoIndian occupation of the area shown in the film includes fossilized bison skeletal remains and Folsom projectile points. For further description, see entries of the four titles listed above. This footage forms part of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys Records in the National Anthropological Archives.
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Related Materials:
The Human Studies Film Archives also holds the Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr. films (HSFA.1986.12), which contain his films documenting archaeological field work in the Tennessee and Arizona, Zuni pueblo and the surrounding landscape in New Mexico, and Chichen Itza in Mexico.
Provenance:
Transferred from the National Anthropological Archives 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.