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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...
Clip #: AD-55-3 Length: 12:24 Year: 1930 Sound: Silent Decade: 1930s Description: 01:04:23:25
Abyssinia Roll 2
Addis Ababa
Man wearing safari hat waving to crowd.
MS Ethiopian trumpeters announcing arrival.
VS Ethiopian musicians playing large bamboo flutes
(traditional culture, Ethiopian music).
PAN row of Ethiopian natives dressed in tribal clothes holding rifles ...
Clip #: AD-30-2 Length: 11:22 Year: 1930 Sound: Silent Decade: 1930s Description: 04:03:55:00
Addis Ababa
VS lioned-maned chieftains wearing traditional clothing
& holding rifles / shields.
HA procession going down street past crowds of onlookers.
Drummers playing drums as they ride donkeys.
Armed soldiers marching in procession.
HA royal car driving dignitaries...
Clip #: 565-149 Length: 0:00:10 Year: 1930 Decade: 1930s Description: B/W 1930 PAN line of Black soldiers holding rifles + shields / Abyssinia (now Ethiopia)
Clip #: 565-150 Length: 0:00:08 Year: 1930 Decade: 1930s Description: B/W 1930 HA large crowd of men in white robes carry rifles + run in street / Abyssinia -
Clip #: AD-30-3 Length: 17:21 Year: 1930 Decade: 1930s Description: Footage of the processions and festivities celebrating the inauguration of Emperor Haile Selassie I, which took place on November 2nd, 1930.
