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Clip #: TFA-52A
Length: 9:08
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour through the South Sea islands of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Sydney, Australia. POV from ocean liner of wharf and Aloha lighthouse tower. CU Aloha Tower with clock and ountains in background. Young Wahini women wearing grass skirts, leis, flower wreaths walk up gangplank smiling and...
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Clip #: TFA-271C
Length: 6:14
Year: 1940
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Details the construction of the Panama Canal and demonstration of ships passing through it.
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Clip #: TFA-314A
Length: 28:32
Year: 1929
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Footage from Charles Wellington Furlong's expedition to Tanganyika, Africa in the 1920s.
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Clip #: TFA-388
Length: 1:18:18
Year: 1921
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A 1921 documentary from filmmaker Frank Hurley about the people of Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait.
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Clip #: TFA-340A
Length: 13:21
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Pan American Airways New Horizons promotional film about travel to Hawaii in the 1950s.
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Clip #: TFA-256A
Length: 42:45
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary about missionary work being done in Brazil and nearby countries. Footage of missionary doctors treating patients infected with the then-fatal skin disease fogo selvagem, locally referred to as Savage Fire." Also contains footage of traditional Indian ways of life, such as barbasco...
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Clip #: TFA-210J
Length: 8:14
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A tour of Panama, Cuba, and Puerto Rico in the 1920s.
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Clip #: TFA-354B
Length: 25:40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A Voyage of the Yankee brigantine sailing ship around the world crewed by students.
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Clip #: TFA-151D
Length: 10:45
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
PAN across rooftops with mountains in background. PAN across countryside with lake and mountains. Mexican indians wearing sombreros and sarapes ride donkeys with saddle bags down village street. House of the Giants, large statue, chapel with La Cruz del Humilladero, the cross of humilty, CU...
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Clip #: TFA-281A
Length: 28:20
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Two male tourists and a local guide travel through the Amazon in a dugout canoe rigged with a Johnson Outboard Motor on a piranha fishing expedition.
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