Edward Higbee films
name: label: Creator
content: Higbee, Edward Converse
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Europe
label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Trew Higbee Bennett in three donations made in 1989 and 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Higbee, Edward Converse
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content: Edward Higbee films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent reversal; 5,200 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1989.16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
label: Type
content: Travelogs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Films created and collected by Edward Higbee. Films were donated in three groups:

Edited film "Capetown to Cairo" and outtakes shot and edited by Edward Higbee in 1929.

Films shot by E. C. Higbee c. 1925 and 1926 in Bermuda and the British West Indies; Kodak Cinegraph titled HAITI, JAMAICA, NASSAU, AND CURACAO; and print of GRASS.

Edited film and outtakes shot by E. C. Higbee on a 1929 trip through the Mediterranean; Kodak Cinegraphs documenting sites throughout the world; and WHALING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC from the Filmo Library Adventure Series.

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