2 Film reels (1 hour 32 minutes, color silent; 3,290 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1946
Scope and Contents:
Edited film documents travel in the American Southwest. Film focuses on places of interest including Las Vegas, Boulder, Painted Desert, Kingman, the Petrified Forest, and the Grand Canyon. Extensive footage is given to the Grand Canyon and Boulder in particular. Includes footage of city scenes, landscape panoramas, methods of travel, and tourist activities. Film is edited to include older black and white footage used to explain history of the area.
Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs
Legacy keywords: Tourism ; National parks and reserves ; Landscapes ; Nature ; Deserts ; Cities and towns
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.19
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:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
2 Film reels (57 minutes, two film reels (2,030 feet) assembled film rolls 47 (camera rolls 93,94) and 48 (camera rolls 95,96), 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1972
Scope and Contents:
Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: an overview of a walled domestic compound within the village; blacksmith shoeing a horse; scenes in the village marketplace and shops; shopkeepers around their shops; butcher shop and butchering of a goat; landscape panoramas; truck traveling along dusty mountain road loaded with men; men socializing at a shop.
Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David ; Powell, Josephine ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 27
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:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A (sheet and image): 19 3/4 x 16 in. (50.3 x 40.5 cm) B (sheet and image): 19 3/4 x 16 in. (50.3 x 40.5 cm) C (sheet and image): 19 3/4 x 16 in. (50.3 x 40.5 cm) D (sheet and image): 19 3/4 x 16 in. (50.3 x 40.5 cm) E (sheet and image): 19 3/4 x 16 in. (50.3 x 40.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
