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Clip #: TFA-311B
Length: 25:57
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
British documentary that portrays how the construction of the Sennar Dam, part of the Gezira Scheme, transformed the agriculture of the once barren plains and improved the quality of life for the locals.
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Clip #: TFA-307A
Length: 19:00
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Details the attempts of the French government to guide resolution of conflicts between rival berber tribes in Skoura, Morocco, instruct locals in modern agricultural techniques and create an irrigation canal to bring water to the agricultural land.
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Clip #: TFA-302E
Length: 10:34
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The agriculture of Northwestern Mexico, including a modern cotton gin and henequen processing factory.
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Clip #: TFA-257A
Length: 18:40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Educational film about Ethiopia which discusses its history, geography, agriculture, social structure and role of the Coptic Church, as it falls under the strict control of Emperor Haile Selassie.
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Clip #: TFA-264C
Length: 15:44
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The children of the Balkan Peninsula, who when not attending school, perform agricultural duties on their family farms, including tending to the animals, picking crops and making traditional Balkan handicrafts.
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Clip #: TFA-306A
Length: 25:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary narrated in Hebrew about the formation of a farming community / kibbutz in the Palestinian desert near the Dead Sea.
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Clip #: TFA-387B
Length: 11:33
Year: 1963
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
An educational film about the Nile River in the early 1960s.
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Clip #: TFA-347A
Length: 19:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Julian Bryan film for the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about Bolivia in the 1940s. Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool,...
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Clip #: TFA-304A
Length: 13:17
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Traditional scenes of Tuareg life, including a young man's transition to manhood, wedding festivities and a camel salt caravan through the Sahara.
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Clip #: TFA-134B
Length: 20:57
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A report from the British "The Modern Age" series about reforms in the British colony of Nigeria. Released June,1948
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