Early Man in North America
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.64
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content: Matanuska-Susitna School District educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 540 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film, directed by Howard Campbell, is the second short film in a series adapted from MGM's television documentary "In Search of the Lost World". This short film introduces "salveage archeology" by archaeologist Tom King who, with a small crew of volunteers, rescues skeletal evidence that helps to prove that man was in Norh America more than 8,000 years ago. An interview with L.S.B. Leakey points to the critical value of such archaeological evidence. Film also highlights the ceremonial mounds of the eastern woodland Indians ("moundbuilders"), the Mississippian pre-Columbian mounds (Cahokia) and the Anasazi sites of Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito of the Southwest. Film is narrated by E.G. Marshall.