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    Pottery making methods among the Bimal tribe at Danana, Somaliland.

    Dry clay is collected and pounded and sifted to make a fine grit. Wet clay is carried back to the village. The clay is mixed with the grit and fine sand and puddled ...

     
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    Pottery making methods among the Eile tribe at Gelib, Somaliland.

    The potter and his wife. The woman puddles the clay. The man makes the pots on a simple wheel, shaping the top part first from sausages of clay. The walls are shaped ...

     
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    Dominica, Great Britain

    "Every year on the two days preceding Ash Wednesday, Dominica gives itself up to the spirit of Carnival".

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of the Craster family at Jotwara including a Sikh orderly; John McLeod Campbell at Galta; sacred monkeys; a fakir; ...

     
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    INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya

    Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). "Do you know that the sugar you put into your coffee cup is an Empire product? Sugar cane is a member of the ...

     
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    USA

    Pygmies of the Central African rain forest; aspects of their way of life - domestic, hunting, and bartering.

     
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    ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the age of seven.

    No main title. "It was strictly for purposes of scientific study that we went to Borneo ...

     
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    Rangoon, Mandalay, Penang Funeral', 1930s

     
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    Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.

    "The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The Residency, Mastung". Panned shot right to left across rubble of the Residency, turbaned Indian visible in remaining ...

     
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    Amateur film of British bombing raids in the Northwest Frontier, near Afghanistan.

    A view of a Hawker Hart (India) (K-2120) in flight, filmed from an adjacent aircraft. The aircraft drops a bomb. Brief shot of the ...

     
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    Amateur film shot by Pilot Officer Normand Littlejohn while serving with RAF 17 Squadron as a Pilot Officer in 1931, then as Flying Officer with RAF 203 Flying Boat Squadron in Iraq Command from 1932-1935 records ground and flying activity in Britain ...

     
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    Rafai fakir group performs rituals in private palace courtyard, Hyderabad.