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Clip #: TFA-351B
Length: 18:35
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
India Speaks is a 1933 Pre-Code adventure film, combining elements of documentaries and travelogue programs, mostly taking place on the Indian sub-continent along with staged bits spliced in to aid story flow. Produced by Walter Futter from a screenplay by Norman Houston, the film was directed,...
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Clip #: TFA-113C
Length: 9:58
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Rituals in Siam (Thailand) in the late 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-141A
Length: 13:04
Year: 1960
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A Pan Am tour of Japan in the 1960s. Narration is in German.
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Clip #: TFA-11B-1
Length: 16:26
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Dancers and gymnasts perform various drills, including Mallakhamba, on a field in India in the late 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-319A
Length: 26:37
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The lavish governmental, religious and military ceremonies for Emperor Haile Selassie’s coronation in 1930. While other US and European film crews were present, Burton Holmes was the only cameraman allowed inside the Royal Enclosure. Includes footage of the coronation, various foreign...
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Clip #: TFA-148D
Length: 10:50
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Oxen with driven horizontal wooden water wheel below large tree, CU oxen with large horns between yoke, wheel with cans brings water to trough, CU wooden wheels with wooden gears, spokes and pegs, water spills into pool, agriculture, irrigation in fields, man with hoe, clears path for water in...
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Clip #: TFA-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The Song of Ceylon is a 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. Documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. The first...
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Clip #: TFA-94H
Length: 14:28
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A tour of the French countryside in the 1920's.
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Clip #: TFA-93C
Length: 32:42
Year: 1946
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film in French about the island of Cyprus in 1946
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Clip #: TFA-31B
Length: 13:06
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the Island of Java in Indonesia in 1933
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