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    Margaret Mead audiovisual collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Films in the Mead Collection are general films of her personal and professional life, and contain films by other producers that came from her offices at the American Museum of Natural History and the Institute for Intercultural Studies. Subjects include Child development and acquisition of personality characteristics as a culturally derived phenomenon, cultural issues relating to post-World War II, cybernetics, ekistics (study of human...
    • Contributor: Belo, Jane - Mead, Margaret - Clah, Alfred - Lomax, Alan - Bateson, Gregory - Gilbert, Craig - Baker, Aloha
    • Date: 1936
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    South Pacific Ethnographic Archives audiovisual collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Field footage and produced films made by Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Theodore Schwartz, Lenora Foerstel, and Lola Romanucci-Ross; chiefly anthropological and ethnological field work with the Papua New Guinea (formerly Admiralty Islands region) and Sepik River Valley cultures of Papua New Guinea; and the Balinese of Indonesia. Subjects include Bali, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Manus Island, culture change, and technological change....
    • Contributor: Schwartz, Theodore - Belo, Jane - Institute for Intercultural Studies - Romanucci-Ross, Lola - South Pacific Ethnographic Archives - Mead, Margaret - Foerstel, Lenora - Bateson, Gregory
    • Date: 1936
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    Scenes of the Everglades. Businessman and adventurer Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 after living for several months among the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. He later used the film in a traveling show that featured a live, caged bear and himself dressed as a Seminole. Photographed by William B. Feeland, the film contains some of the earliest moving footage of the Seminole. Beginning with panoramic...
    • Contributor: Feeland, William B. - Brinkley, Homer Augustus
    • Date: 1928-01-01
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    Chrysanthemums
    Original French title: Chrysanthèmes | Alternate title per MAVIS: Masson reel | Chrysanthèmes | Masson reel
    Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from which other women emerge. The dancers construct an elegant floral display, in the middle of which a miniature dancer performs. Another circle of flowers is brought forward on the stage, toward the camera, and in the circle are...
    • Contributor: Pathé Frères (U.S.) - Pathé Frères (France) - Mathieu, Julienne - Afi/Baker (Glenn L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Chomón, Segundo De
    • Date: 1907
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    Betsy Ross dance
    Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 5: Betsey Ross dance | Title in Biograph production log: Betsy Ross dance (Little Anita)
    Opens on a bare stage with a painted backdrop of an interior theater wall and pillar. From screen right, a woman in a short, ruffled dress and sash, tights, and ballet slippers, with long, dark hair worn in curls twirls onstage and performs an enthusiastic dance. Her movements include some with an apparent ballet influence, such as pirouettes and walking on pointe. She also...
    • Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Little Anita - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Trance and dance in Bali A performance of the kris dance, a Balinese ceremonial dance which dramatizes the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon--the death-dealing and the life-protecting--as it is given in the village of Pagoetan in 1937-1939. Dancers go into violent trance seizures and turn their krisses (daggers) against their breasts without injury. Consciousness is restored with incense and holy water. Balinese music forms a background...
    • Contributor: Belo, Jane - McPhee, Colin - Bohmer, Josef - Foerstel (Lenora) Collection (Library of Congress) - Mead, Margaret - Committee for Research in Dementia Praecox - Bateson, Gregory
    • Date: 1951
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    TR in Africa [1909, 2]
    Theodore Roosevelt in Africa [1909, 2] | Roosevelt in Africa
    Scenes of African peoples and of TR's safari party, all probably filmed in British East Africa (Kenya) in 1909. View of TR planting a tree in front of trading company building, possibly located in Mombasa, long shot of busy amusement area in Kenyan seaport of Mombasa, including shot of ferris wheel filled with Swahilis; shots, taken from observation platform on train engine, of plains...
    • Contributor: Kearton, Cherry - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1909