Collection is open for research. Access to collection materials requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.
Collection Citation:
Norma Merrick Sklarek Archival Collection, 1944-2008. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962 Search this
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Search this
Extent:
1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 310 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1933
Scope and Contents:
Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for "The Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film documents various scenes of city life in Tokyo, Japan. Film includes a trolley, busy streets, a department store with an amusement park for children, a market area, spectators watching a baseball game and nighttime with neon lights illuminating the streets. The film also shows fishermen fishing at a wharf, Japanese sumo wrestling, Japanese theater, and women in traditional kimono dress. The narrator discusses how Tokyo is a very advanced city and how it is influenced by western culture.
Legacy Keywords: Street scenes ; Urban transportation ; Stores, Retail ; Markets Japan ; Baseball Asia ; Wrestling ; Theater Japan ; Costume ; Fishing Japan
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.67
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:
Father Bernard Hubbard collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Pipe from a Centrifuge! Manufacturing cast-iron pipe by centrifugal casting. Cast Iron Pipe Research Association, Birmingham, AL.
Wrestling with Wrinkles! Auto body repair shop. Unger and Wilhelm.
Photographed in Electricity! Dry electrostatic photographic process. Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH.
Craftsmen of the Carousel! Manufacturing merry-go-rounds for amusement parks. Arrow Development Co., Mountain View, CA.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but the films are stored off-site. Special arrangements must be made directly with the Archives Center staff to view episodes for which no reference copy exists. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees will be charged for reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Industry on Parade Film Collection, 1950-1959, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Series of sketches drawn from life by Florence Nupok, a full blood St Lawrence Island Eskimo woman. 93 sketches (numbers are listed on each drawing).
This series of sketches was made by Florence Nupok, a full blooded St Lawrence Island married Eskimo woman, aged about 19, during the winter of 1927-8 at her camp at N. East Cape. I purchased the sketches because they were drawn from life and because they show so nicely the usual every day life of the St Lawrence Island Eskimo. The sketches are worth the money expended for them and I doubt that an other set is in existence made by a native on the spot as these were. It is almost impossible for a white person to do any sketching in the houses or homes of these natives as they will not stand for it under any condition, unless one is fortunate enough to be taken into their tribe. I shall of course try to obtain photographs where ever possible. I shall ask Nupok again to continue this work for me, and I think she will. I trust that the idea meets with your approval. In a few years all St Lawrence Island Eskimos will live in frame houses -- five were built last year -- four this year (1928) and the old customs will go the long trail and be forgotten. Modern kitchen ranges, stoves, coal oil heaters, and so on are replacing the famous and serviceable seal oil lamps, enamel pans, dishes, the old driftwood bowls and platters; aluminum tea kettles are replacing the good old Russian "Samovars", etc. Clothing is about the only thing that they cling to and for a very good reason, which is that the white man's clothing is not yet good enough to keep out the terrible winter's cold and for that reason, I too, adopt the native clothes, the only kind which is good enough to keep one warm. I shall list the sketches by numbers and will give the remarks...
Biographical / Historical:
Made during the winter (1927-1928) at her camp at North East Cape.
Florence Nupok is now Florence Malewotkuk, according to Dorothy Ray, 1968.
