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The Human Studies Film Archives collections include films and videos of historical, archaeological, and ethnographic significance, including edited ethnographic films, unique research footage produced as part of anthropological research, and travelogues by amateur and professional filmmakers.

The following is a list of major collections from HSFA cataloged in Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS):

 
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Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1980 [supplied] 86.13.5 1980
Dorjee, Ragpa Tibetan ethnocinematographer 1956
72,746 ft sound color film

Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1981 [supplied] 86.13.6 1981
Dorjee, Ragpa Tibetan ethnocinematographer 1956
12,334 ft sound color film

Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Mundgod, South India, 1979 [supplied] 86.13.9 1979
Dorjee, Ragpa NAFC cameraman 1956
47,240 ft sound color film

Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Orissa, South India, 1980 [supplied] 86.13.7 1980
Dorjee, Ragpa Tibetan ethnocinematographer 1956
3,720 ft sound color film

Film Study of a Peruvian Highland Community, 1970 [supplied] 85.5.2 1970
Brownrigg, Leslie anthropologist
5,000 ft silent color

Film Study of the Lifestyle of the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia, 1976 [supplied] 86.13.25 1976
Maradol, Mathias Micronesian ethnocinematographer
53,583 ft sound color film

Film Study of the Lifestyle of the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia, 1981 [supplied] 86.13.27 1981
Schecter, Steven ethnocinematographer
55,600 ft sound color film

Film Study of the Lifestyle of the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia, 1982 [supplied] 86.13.28 1982
Maradol, Mathias Micronesian ethnocinematographer
26,000 ft sound color film

Fire and steel [published] 90.1.1 1986
Derry, Ann film producer
17 min sound color video

Firewood [published] 84.16.8 1974
Asch, Timothy ethnographic filmmaker 1932
360 ft (10 min) sound color video

First moon [published] 88.5.6 1987
Hinton, Carma Director
38 min sound color video

First World Order [published] 95.1.9 RV 1994
Jones, Philip Mallory Producer
26 minutes sound color video

Footloose in france [published] 91.20.2 1960
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
3,110 ft silent color film

Footloose in France [published] 91.20.2-1 RV c. 1950
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
43 minutes silent color film/video

Footloose in France [published] 91.20.2-2 RV c. 1950
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
41 minutes silent color film/video

Footsteps in the Sea 1931-1932
Fleischmann, Julius
reference 8 videcassettes (2 hr. 49 min.) sil. b&w tinted 1/2inch VHS
master 8 videocassettes (2 hr. 49 min.) sil. b&w tinted 3/4inch
master 8 videoreels (2 hr. 49 min.) sil. b&w tinted one inch
archival original 8 reels (4,827 ft.) sil. b&w tinted 16mm

Formosa Three Passports of Adventure 037 ca. 1970
reference 1 DVD (23 min.) snd. col. DVD
preservation 1 videocassette (23 min.) snd. col. BetacamSP
archival original 1 video (23 min.) snd. col. 2 inch

Fort Nelson, B.C., Army Operations, c. 1938 [supplied] 93.16.4 c. 1938
Irwin, David adventurer/showman 19 -19
727 ft silent b&w

Four families [published] 84.19.3 1959
UNKNOWN
2,200 ft sound b&w film

Fourth Pacific Festival of Arts, Tahiti, 1985 [supplied] 90.18.1 1985
Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois
7 hrs sound color

Francis Emerick's Travel Footage of India, 1927-1933 [supplied] 80.5.1 1927-1933
Emerick, Francis schoolteacher
1,600 ft silent b&w/color film

[Frank Roberts' Footage of Allantown, Arizona, 1930-1933]
Roberts, Frank Harold Hanna Jr
reference 1 videocassette (18 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS
master 1 videoreel (18 min.) sil. b&w one inch
master 1 videocassette (18 min.) sil. b&w betacam sp
archival original 2 reels (1,000 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm

[Frank Roberts' Footage of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, ca. 1932]
Roberts, Frank H. H. Frank Harold Hanna, 1897-1966
reference 1 videocassette (9 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS
master 1 videocasssette (9 min.) sil. b&w betacam sp
master 1 videoreel (9 min.) sil. b&w one inch
print 1reel (237 ft.) sil. b&w 16mm
archival original 1 reel (594 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm

[Frank Roberts' Footage of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, 1933-1934]
Roberts, Frank H. H. Frank Harold Hanna, 1897-1966
reference 1 videocassette (12 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS
master 1 videocassette (12 min.) sil. b&w) betacam sp
master 1 videoreel (12 min.) sil. b&w one inch
print 1 reel (357 ft.) sil. b&w 16mm
archival original 1 reel (893 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm

[Frank Roberts' Footage of Zuni, New Mexico, ca. 1931]
Roberts, Frank H. H. Frank Harold Hanna, 1897-1966
reference 1 videocassette (6 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS
master 1 videocassette (6 min.) sil. b&w betacam sp
master 1 videoreel (6 min.) sil. b&w one inch
print 1 reel (162 ft.) sil. b&w 16mm
archival original 1 reel of film (405 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm

Fred H. Werner Travel Footage of South Asia and Oceania, 1970-1972 [supplied] 93.4.1 1970-1972
Werner, Fred H. Photographer
3,900 ft (2 hrs 26 min) silent color video

Frederick Wulsin's Travel Footage of Africa, ca. 1927 82.1.1 ca. 1927
Wulsin, Frederick anthropologist and Explorer Club member 1891-1961
1,989 ft silent b&w film

Friends of Malayans [published] 94.20.1 1962
542 ft sound b&w film

Frivolous fiji [published] 89.18.2 1920
Outing, Chester filmmaker
231 ft silent b&w film

From the caribbean [published] 89.22.9 1981
UNKNOWN
774 ft sound color film

From the Roots: California Indian Basketweavers [published] 96.1.26 1996
Greensfelder, Sara producer
28 minutes sound color video

Funeral of the Raja of Kapunduk, East Sumba, Indonesia, 1988 [supplied] 88.17.2 1988
Scheerer, Laura filmmaker
3 hrs 45 min sound color video

Fur country [published] 93.16.3 c. 1950
Irwin, David adventurer/showman 19 -19
640 ft sound b&w

George Eaton Simpson Film Study of Plaisance, Haiti, 1937 [supplied] 92.12.1 1937
Simpson, George Eaton anthropologist
451 ft (18 min) silent b&w video

Georgia Shouters, c. 1930 [supplied] 77.1.3 c. 1930
Steiner, Ralph photographer/filmmaker
900 ft (37 min) silent b&w film/video

Germany: People of the Industrial West 94.21.147 1957
1 reel (612 ft.) snd. b&w 16mm archival original

Gibraltar [published] 90.10.13 1929
UNKNOWN
97 ft (4 min) silent b&w video

Glimpses of ceylon [published] 89.9.2 c. 1920s
UNKNOWN
213 ft silent b&w film

Glimpses of Picturesque Java 94.19.62 1938
Paul Devlin
1 reel (388 ft.) snd. b&w. 16mm archival original/preservation
1 videoreel (10 min.) snd. b&w one inch master
1 videocassette (10 min.) snd. b&w betacamSP $3 master
1 videocassette (10 min.) snd. b&w 1/2 inch VHS reference

Glories of the Alps [published] 91.20.27 1958
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
88 minutes silent color film/video

Gold Coast, 1954 [supplied] 91.13.9 1954
Chapman, Frances cameraman
441 ft (12 min) silent color video

Gordon parks' diary of a harlem family [published] 93.24.10 1968
Parks, Gordon Photographer
710 ft sound b&w film

Grace Stansbury's Footage of Gallup Ceremonial, c. 1939 [supplied] 92.5.1 c. 1939
Stanbury, Grace librarian
374 ft (14 min) silent color video

Granada [supplied] 90.10.18 1929
UNKNOWN
86 ft (3 min) silent b&w video

Grass [published] 90.3.4 1925
Cooper, Merian C. filmmaker 1893-****
388 ft (20 min) silent b&w video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: CATTLE - BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY; BISON, CATTLE AND MAN; WHITE MAN MOVES WEST; YOUR PET, FORTY MILLION YEARS B.C. [published] 96.1.25-4 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: EARLY HUNTERS; FORAGERS; DISPLACED PEOPLES - WILLEBAGO AND PONCA; FUR TRADE - BIG BUSINESS [published] 96.1.25-8 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: FIGHTING CHEYENNE, FROM AN ATOM - THE EARTH, DAWN OF PLAINS HISTORY, DATING THE PAST [published] 96.1.25-9 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: FROM TRAIL TO RAIL, LOUISIANA PURCHASE - AMERICA'S BEST BUY, MAMMOTH AND MASTODON: ELEPHANTS ON THE PLAINS, NEBRASKA TERRITORY - BOOM AND BUST [published] 96.1.25-6 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: MAN, ANIMAL, CLIMATE AND EARTH; GROWTH OF LIFE; PREHISTORIC FARMERS; ARMY EXPLORERS AND FORT ATKINSON [published] 96.1.25-7 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: PAWNEE, MEN OF MEN, [published] 96.1.25-1 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: PLAINSMEN OF THE PAST [published] 96.1.25-2 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: PLATTE VALLEY - AMERICA'S GREAT ROAD WEST, RISE OF THE HORSEMAN, AND <49> [published] 96.1.25-11 RV 1954
1 hour 30 minutes sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: PRAIRIE TOWNS A-BOOMIN, SETLERS AND THE LAND, RED-WHITE STRUGGLE, AND RHINO-THE GIANT ON LAND [published] 96.1.25-10 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: SOD HOUSE FRONTIER, LINCOLN - THE NEW CAPITAL CITY, BEAVER TOWN: 16 MILLION B.C., CAMELS ON THE GREAT PLAINS [published] 96.1.25-3 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

GREAT PLAINS TRILOGY: TRIBES OF THE EASTERN PLAINS, PIGS OF THE PAST, WORLD IS BUILT, FROM NOMAD TO VILLAGER [published] 96.1.25-5 RV 1954
2 hours sound B&W video

Greek Odyssey Three Passports to Adventure 51 1972
reference 1 DVD (24 min.) snd. col. DVD
preservation 1 videocassette (24 min.) snd. col. BetacamSP
archival original 1 video (24 min.) snd. col. 2 inch

Guatemala: Nation of Central America 94.21.55 1960
1 reel (612 ft.) snd. b&w 16mm archival original

Gustav Schwager's Footage of Hawaii, 1935 [supplied] 89.14.1 1935
Schwager, Gustav United States Army enlistee
936 ft (52 min) silent b&w video

G.W. Locke's Travel Footage of Hawaii, Japan, and China, 1929 [supplied] 84.9.1 1929
Locke, G.W
2,200 ft (54 min) silent b&w video

Gypsies sing long ballads [published] 93.20.10 1982
Cohen, John Ethnographic filmmaker
1,080 ft sound color

Habitant arts and crafts [published] 87.9.20 1943
Boulton, Laura musicologist
660 ft (18 min) sound color video

[Hacienda Vicos, 1954-1955] [supplied] 88.12.1 1954-1955
Collier, Jr., John filmmaker
3,455 ft (1 hr 41 min) silent color/b&w video

Hagoromo: A Japanese No Play [known as] 89.2.9 c. 1925
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
812 ft (31 min) silent b&w video

Haifa, nazareth, tiberias, sea of galilee [published] 90.10.12 1929
UNKNOWN
99 ft (4 min) silent b&w video

Hail Mother Kali: Indo-Guyanese Video Project, 1988 [supplied] 91.1.1 1988
Stephanides, Stephanos filmmaker
24 hrs sound color video

Haiti, jamaica, nassau, and curacao [published] 90.3.3 c. 1920s
Kellerman, Maurice filmmaker
495 ft (14 min) silent b&w video

Haitian song 92.9.3 1982
8,500 ft sound color

Haitian voodoo [published] 90.1.5 1985
Lipscomb, John produced film
11 min sound color video

Hajari Bhand [known as] 84.2.1 1980
Emigh, John professor of theatre arts
5 hrs sound color video

Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon Footage, 1924-1925 [supplied] 94.6.1 1924-1925
Rice, Hamilton Explorer
2,600 ft silent b&w

Hand Industries of Mexico 94.21.13 1945
1 reel (359 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original/preservation
1 videoreel (10 min.) snd. col. one inch master
1 videocassette (10 min.) snd. col. betacamSP $3 master
1 videocassette (10 min.) snd. col. 1/2 inch VHS reference

Harvest at nong lub [published] 91.8.8 1971
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
694 ft sound color film

Harvest dance [published] 88.21.7 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hawaii [published] 91.20.17 1956
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
3,156 ft silent color

[Hawaiian Hula, 1943] l943
Bacon, George U.S. Army photographer
800 ft silent color film
master 1 videocassette (25 min.) sil. col. 3/4 inch

Hawaiian Hula Positions, 1943 [supplied] 84.4.2 1943
Bacon, George U.S. Army photographer
240 ft silent color film

Healing Ritual of the Twelve Apostles Church of Ghana, 1975 77.2.1 1975
Breidenbach, Martha F. anthropology graduate student 19
2,000 ft silent color film

Helicopter Views of Sumatra [known as] 81.5.9 c. 1970
Niejo-Biroum, Francine
600 ft (16 min) silent b&w video

Herero of ngamiland 83.9.1 1953
Smithsonian Institution
1,000 ft (28 min) sound color video

Herskovits' Film Study of West Africa, 1931 77.1.1 1931
Herskovits, Melville Jean anthropolgist
1,900 ft (71 min) silent b&w film/video

[Herskovits Film Study of West Africa, 1931] (outtakes) 77.1.5 1931
41 ft (2 min) silent b&w video

Heruka [published] 86.13.15 1980
National Human Studies Film Center, Smithsonian Institution
900 ft sound color film

High arctic [published] 78.1.1/85.11.7 c. 1963
Cotlow, Lewis filmmaker 1898-****
2,100 ft (1 hr) sound color video

High Plain 94.19.44 ca. 1942
Julien Bryan
1 reel (709 ft.) snd. b&w. 16mm archival original
1 videoreel (19 min.) snd. b&w one inch original video
1 videocassette (19 min.) snd. b&w betacamSP videomaster

Himba Research Film, 1972-1973 83.5.1 1972-1973
Smithsonian Institution
4,000 ft (1 hr 40 min) sound color/b&w video

Himba wedding 83.5.3 1969
Smithsonian Institution
1,200 ft (33 min) sound color video

Hinduism [published] 93.24.24 1962
UNKNOWN
665 ft sound b&w film

Holi Festival Near Mathura [known as] 89.2.3 c. 1924
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
141 ft (7 min) silent b&w video

Hong kong handicrafts: jade carving [published] 88.21.2 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hong kong handicrafts: wood carving [published] 88.21.3 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hong kong i [published] 88.21.13 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hong kong ii [published] 88.21.14 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hong kong iii [published] 88.21.15 c. 1950
Rickshaw Films
100 ft (3 min) silent color video

Hopi horizons [published] 79.2.1 1947
Cussler, Margaret sociology professor
750 ft (22 min) sound color film/video

Horses of life and death 88.17.1 1988
Scheerer, Laura filmmaker
13,000 ft (7 hrs) sound color video

Horses of life and death [published] 88.17.6 1991
Scheerer, Laura filmmaker
26 min sound color video

[House Warming Rites "Chisei-Nomi" in Nibutani, 1993] [supplied] 93.6.2 1993
Okada, Kazuo
19 min sound b&w/color video

Howard E. Bowers' Travel Footage of Asia, ca. 1928 97.4.1 ca. 1928
reference 2 videocassettes (1 hr. 47 min.) sil. b&w. 1/2" VHS
master 2 videocassettes (1 hr. 47 min.) sil. b&w. betacamSP
master 2 videoreels (1 hr. 47 min.) sil. b&w. one inch
4 reels (2,776 ft.) sil. b&w. 16mm archival original

Hrdlicka in the Aleutian Islands, c. 1937-1938 [supplied] 82.2.1 c. 1937-1938
UNKNOWN
600 ft silent b&w film/video

Hrdlicka on Kodiak Island, 1931 [supplied] 82.2.2 1931
Bastian, Edward producer
160 ft silent b&w film/video

Huichol Film Project, 1973 [supplied] 89.4.4 1973
Muller, Kalmun ethnographic filmmaker 1939
1,169 ft sound color film

Huichol Film Project, 1975 [supplied] 89.3.2 1975
Muller, Kalmun ethnographic filmmaker 1939
6,962 ft sound/silent color

Huichol Film Project, fall 1974 [supplied] 89.4.5 1974
Muller, Kalmun ethnographic filmmaker 1939
2,420 ft sound color film

Huichol Film Project, February-March 1975 [supplied] 89.3.3 1975
Muller, Kalmun ethnographic filmmaker 1939
13,527 ft sound color film

Huichol Film Project, Summer 1974 [supplied] 89.3.1 1974
Muller, Kalmun ethnographic filmmaker 1939
19,512 ft sound/silent color

Huichol: people of the peyote [published] 93.11.1 1975
Muller, Kalmun cameraman
49 min sound color video

Huk Story [published] 94.20.3 date unknown
385 ft sound b&w film

[Hula Pahu from the Mader Collection, c. 1935] 88.6.1 c. 1935
UNKNOWN
110 ft (7 min) silent b&w video

Hunting in Africa, c. 1955 [supplied] 91.7.2 c. 1955
UNKNOWN
814 ft (32 min) silent color/b&w video

Hunting pre-history on panama's unknown north coast [published] 91.16.7 c. 1940s
Stirling, Matthew anthropologist 1896-1975
2,596 ft (64 min) silent color video

I am the pain doctor [published] 90.2.1 1976
Baker, Dan filmmaker
1,000 ft (27 min) sound color film/video

I gigli a nola [published] 86.3.1 1923
440 ft (18 min) silent b&w film/video

I love mexico [published] 91.20.6 1966
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
2,893 ft silent color

Ibm album of the americas [published] 87.9.4 1946
Boulton, Laura musicologist
1,178 ft (33 min) sound color video

Ik Film Study, 1964-1965 [supplied] 91.13.1 1964-1965
Towles, Joseph anthropologist 1937-1988
3,439 ft (1 hr 36 min) silent color

Ik Film Study, 1964-1965: Edited Version [supplied] 91.13.2 1964-1965
Towles, Joseph anthropologist 1937-1988
2,103 ft (58 min) sound color video

Ikat Weaving, Gujerat, India, 1979-1981 [supplied] 83.10.1 1979-1981
Cort, Cynthia Cunningham university student
3,000 ft (83 min) silent color video

Ikat Weaving, Orissa, India, 1980 [supplied] 83.10.2 1980
Cort, Cynthia Cunningham university student
800 ft (22 min) silent color video

Ikoma Dance, c. 1938 [supplied] 91.15.1 c. 1938
UNKNOWN
100 ft (4 min) silent b&w video

[Imbalu Film Project, 1967] [supplied] 85.1.1 1967
Hawkins, Richard filmmaker 19
97 min sound color video

Imbalu [published] 85.1.2 1967
Hawkins, Richard filmmaker
61 min sound color video

In Japan [known as] 89.2.7 c. 1920s
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
361 ft (16 min) silent b&w video

In Korea [known as] 89.2.8 c. 1920s
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
125 ft (7 min) silent b&w video

In quaint holland [published] 90.7.14 c. 1925
UNKNOWN
216 ft (6 min) silent b&w video

In Rural Maharashtra 94.19.26 ca. 1940
1 reel (447 ft.) snd. b&w. 16mm archival original
1 videoreel (12 min.) snd. b&w one inch master
1 videocassette (12 min.) snd. b&w betacamSP $3 master
1 videocassette (12 min.) snd. b&w 1/2 inch VHS reference

In Search of Lost Worlds 89.22.24 1972
Noxon, Nicolas
1,800 ft sound color film

In search of lost worlds 87.16.1 1971
Rosten, Irwin
70,000 ft sound color

In Search of the Early Americans [published] 76.1.1 c. 1975
Shell Oil Company
1,512 (42 min) color sound video

In search of the primitive [published] 85.11.8 c. 1966
Cotlow, Lewis
1,800 ft (50 min) sound color video

In siamese society [published] 90.7.5 c. 1919
Holmes, Burton travel-lecturer
787 ft (14 min) silent b&w video

India: Introduction to Its History 94.21.156 1958
1 reel (648 ft.) snd. b&w 16mm archival original

Indian Dramatic Dances (The Nautch) and Yakkun Netuma: Devil Dancing in Ceylon [known as] 89.2.2 c. 1920s
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
536 ft (18 min) silent b&w video

Indian ownership of the arkansas river [published] 87.6.4 c. 1971
KTUL-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma
20 min sound color video

Indian Rhythm 90.16.1 c. 1939
Knee, Ernest
one reel (1,000 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm archival original/preservation
1 videoreel (11 min.) sil. b&w one inch master
1 videocassette (11 min.) sil. b&w BetacamSP master
1 videocassette sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS reference

Indian Rhythm (Outtakes) 90.16.2 c. 1938 outtakes--archival collection
Knee, Ernest
one reel (900 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm archival original/preservation
1 videoreel (10 min.) sil. b&w one inch master
1 videocassette (10 min.) sil. b&w BetacamSP master
1 videocassette sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS reference

Indians (Boys and Girls) 94.21.43 unknown
1 reel (648 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Indians (Hunting) 94.21.63 unknown
1 reel (648 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Indians of california, part i: village life [published] 93.24.17 1955
UNKNOWN
545 ft sound color film

Indians of North America The Apache [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
32 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Cherokee [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
31 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Cheyenne [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
31 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Comanche [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
33 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Iroquois [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
31 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Navajo [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
29 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Seminole [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
31 min sound color video

Indians of North America The Yankton Sioux [published] 95.1.7 RV 1993
Nevison, Henry Producer
30 min sound color video

Individuality and solidarity among the canela [published] 86.13.17 1975
Schecter, Steven filmmaker 1957
432 ft (8 min) sound color film/video

Indo-Jamaican Video Project, 1991 [supplied] 91.11.1 1991
Homiak, John P. anthropologist 1947
3 hrs sound color video

Indonesia, c. 1920s [supplied] 89.2.10 c. 1920s
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. art historian
500 ft (15 min) silent b&w video

Installation of Yang Di-Pertuan Agong IV of Malaysia [published] 94.20.9 date unknown
948 ft sound b&w film

International News Newsreel: Greatest Church Gathering in Ancient Coliseum, c. 1922 [supplied] 90.7.9 c. 1922
UNKNOWN
58 ft silent b&w film

IRELAND'S WHISTLING AMBASSADOR: MICHO RUSSELL OF DOOLIN, COUNTY CLARE (outtakes) 1992
Ochs, Bill
3 hrs 30 min sound color

Ireland's whistling ambassador: micho russell of doolin, county clare [published] 94.7.1 1993
Ochs, Bill
28 min sound color video

Irish Children: Rural Life in Western Ireland 94.21.39 1948
1 reel (396 ft.) snd. b&w 16mm archival original

Ishi in two worlds [published] 84.19.5 1967
Tomkins, Richard producer
684 ft sound color film

Islam [published] 93.24.14 1962
UNKNOWN
700 ft sound b&w film

Italian americans [published] 89.22.19 1974
Scorsese, Martin producer
1,033 ft sound color film

Italy - Ancient and Modern 94.21.178 1966
1 reel (720 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Italy (Peninsula of Contrasts) 94.21.41 1952
1 reel (612 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Italy, the Land and the People 94.21.145 1963
1 reel (504 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Jaguar: a yanomamo twin cycle myth as told by daramasiwa [published] 84.16.9 1976
Asch, Timothy ethnographic filmmaker 1932
729 ft (22 min) sound color video

Jambo porini [published] 91.21.6 c. 1955
Crawford, Frederick C
2,100 ft (60 min) sound color video

Japan (Harvesting the Land and the Sea) 94.21.136 1963
1 reel (972 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Japan [published] 91.20.14 1976
Soule, Thayer travel-lecturer 19
3,093 ft silent color film

Japan, the crowded islands: city [published] 89.22.13 1979
UNKNOWN
798 ft sound color film

Japan, the crowded islands: countryside [published] 89.22.14 1979
UNKNOWN
786 ft sound color film

Japan: Promotional and Theatrical Footage, c. 1927 [supplied] 93.25.2 c. 1927
UNKNOWN
440 ft (17 min) silent b&w video

Japanese Boy: the Story of Taro 94.21.60 1963
1 reel (720 ft.) snd. col. 16mm archival original

Japan's mass media [published] 93.24.18 1980
UNKNOWN
940 ft sound color film

Jerusalem [published] 90.10.7 1929
UNKNOWN
195 ft (8 min) silent b&w video

Jewish america [published] 89.22.30 1969
Maddox, Ben producer
937 ft sound b&w film

Jie Film Project, 1968 83.2.5 1968
MacDougall, David
14,807 ft sound color/b&w

Jivaro Indians of Ecuador, c. 1936 [supplied] 78.3.1 c. 1936
Biava, Vincent
1 reel of film 590 ft silent b&w 16mm
1 videocassette (25 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS
master 1 videocassette (25 min.) sil. b&w betacam sp

John Steelquist's Footage of the Tarahumara, ca. 1960 98.4.1 ca. 1960
John Steelquist
1 reel (4,000 ft.) sil. b&w. 16mm archival original/preservation
1 videocassette (2 hr. 30 min.) sil. col. betacamSP $3 master
1 videocassette (2 hr. 30 min.) sil. col. 1/2 inch VHS reference

John W. Rowe's Geneva to Bombay Car Rally, 1956 97.10.24 1956
John W. Rowe
2 reels (4,232 ft.) sil. col. 16mm archival original
2 videoreels (2 hr.) sil. col. one inch master
2 videocassettes (2 hr.) sil. col. betacamSP master
2 videocassettes (2 hr.) sil. col. 1/2 inch VHS reference

John W. Rowe's Travel Footage: Colorado, 1948-1952
John W. Rowe
1 reel (800 ft.) sil. col. 16mm archival original

[John W.S. and Arthur D. Foster's World Travel Films, ca. 1927] 96.8.1 ca. 1927
John W.S. Foster
3 reels (901 ft.) sil. b&w. 16mm archival original/preservation
1 reel (862 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm archival original
1 reel (862 ft.) sil. b&w 35mm preservation
1 videoreel (12 min.) sil. b&w one inch master
4 videocassettes (12 min.) sil. b&w betacamSP $3 master
4 videocassettes (12 min.) sil. b&w 1/2 inch VHS reference

Jordan, Jericho, Dead Sea 90.10.11 1929
96 ft (4 min) silent b&w video

Joseph G. Moore Collection: Jamaican Revival and Kumina, 1957-1958 [supplied] 92.1.1 1957-1958
UNKNOWN
19,131 ft silent b&w video

 

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