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:
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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:
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Collection Citation:
American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Film reel (16 minutes, black-and-white silent; 400 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
circa 1940
Scope and Contents:
Film footage, shot in the Caribbean and South America by oil explorer and geologist Walter Link, records daily life in a variety of locations as well as shots of tourist locations. Locations are not identified, but footage includes: geological and geothermal features; harvesting and transporting bananas; field workers; fellow oil explorers traveling and resting in camps; river travel and river crossings; an attempt at a bullfight with a local animal; brief scenes of dancing; and local architecture as well as landscape panoramas. Much of the footage is given to individual and group portraits of a diverse selection of locals, many of whom interact with the cameraman.
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 2004.22.4-2
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:
Walter Link travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Collection was partially preserved with a 2005 grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
1 Film reel (71 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,400 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1928-1934
Scope and Contents:
Film footage moderately edited with intertitles, shot in Celebes and the surrounding islands by oil explorer and geologist Walter Link, records various aspects of local daily life. The record of Celebes begins with port cities around the coast including Makassar and Kendari and moves up to the highlands through Loewoek (Luwuk). Footage was also filmed on other islands, including Lombok, Boeton (Buton), Moeton, and Wowoni (Wawonii). Depicted are a range of daily activities for both oil explorers and locals. Footage of native Indonesians tend to be accompanied by explanatory intertitles, and include: port markets, boats, and traders; several styles of local houses; women planting, harvesting, and storing rice; men harvesting and hulling coconuts; fishing with baskets; and various quotidian markets and crowds, including portraits of a diverse selection of locals. Link captures his fellow explorers and the local laborers they hired sailing prauws; carrying packs through streams; constructing rafts; clearing jungle and building camps; and camp life, including tending to equipment, maps, and foot fungus. Also included are several landscape panoramas and mentions of local domesticated animals.
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 2004.22.1-4
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:
Walter Link travel films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Collection was partially preserved with a 2005 grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
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)
