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Clip #: TFA-9B-4
Length: 2:56
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:23:51 - 18:26:48 >>> Various women picking leaves in grove filled with leafy plants and putting into baskets on their backs, CUs hands picking leaves, women unloading baskets into large burlap bag. HA LS PAN hilly countryside. HA LS women working with baskets on hillside
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Clip #: TFA-9B-2
Length: 3:34
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:17:59 - 18:21:34 >>> Two western dressed men watching a line of women on the side of a road picking thru leaves from large baskets in front of them. Almost naked men working at sifting for jewels and diamonds at a hand operated well and sifting in large flat basket. Man testing a precious...
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Clip #: TFA-9B-3
Length: 2:17
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:21:34 - 18:23:51 >>> PAN area with many people assembled an elephant in back. MS PAN people, CUs some and children. Drum player, horn player, CUs drummer and drum heads being played, horn player. Crowd moves in group, boys carrying flags, women with hands clasped in prayer, MSs people some...
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Clip #: TFA-231B
Length: 8:47
Year: 1941
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An exploration of British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-9B-5
Length: 2:56
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:26:48 - 18:31:33 >>> Costumed men dancing to drummer’s beats, MSs, CUs. Burning logs removed from a rectangular ember pile. Men in bare feet walk back and forth thru the hot embers. Men preparing a religious ?? ceremony, CU fire in logs, MSs men. Men walking with loin cloths. Various men...
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Clip #: TFA-10-9B-8
Length: 10:40
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
19:05:28 Herd of water buffalos being driven into river and two calves being driven. CU native in wide brimmed bamboo hat, CU buffalo. Various elephants walking in water with their mahouts on their back. Good shot elephant walking down dirt road with mahout on back. Elephants lying on their...
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Clip #: AD-22
Length: 29:42
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Documentary from 1937 filmed in the small Indonesian West Java town of Malabar. Follows the entire process
of tea manufacturing from being grown and harvested in the fields, ground and processed in the factory,
and eventually shipped out to countries around the world. Excellent footage of...
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Clip #: TFA-9A-3
Length: 8:11
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
17:16:29 - 17:22:18 >>> Various, steamship enters harbour, shots passengers on steamship, sailboat in water. Man carrying bundle of bamboo shoots climbs pile and deposits bundle on top. Men pass carrying closed basket filled with chickens, men pulling and pushing large cart filled with heavy...
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Clip #: TFA-12-3
Length: 9:37
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
00:08:12 - 00:13:09 >>> Rajah’s white palace ??. CUs young girls. A tame tiger with people out on the lawn. A uniformed band marches in formations and plays instruments and drums.
00:13:09 - 00:17:49 >>> PAN this very large white palace. MSs and CUs colorfully dressed men walk and converse...
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Clip #: TFA-9B-1
Length: 6:15
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
18:11:42 - 18:17:59 >>> Sri Lanka Five men in elaborate costumes and headdresses dance in a circle. Good MSs, CUs men and their feet in spirited dance. Group of drummers accompanying the dancers. CUs dancers elaborate costumes and headdresses. Various, drummers, dancers dancing in unison.
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