AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (58 minutes, two film reels (2,107 feet) assembled film rolls 12 (camera rolls 23,24) and 13 (camera rolls 25,26), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: scenes of a village work group of men constructing a dam-like structure to divert the flow of a river into an irrigation canal; shots of a tailor in his shop measuring a young boy for a suit of clothes; scenes of the process by which mud-bricks are prepared in moulds and set out to bake in the sun; a group of men socializing at threshold to a house; scenes of men and boys harvesting wheat on a mountainside.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Canals rivers irrigation Afghanistan ; Rivers irrigation Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Wheat method of harvesting Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Work groups villages irrigation Afghanistan ; Tailors Afghanistan ; Bricks manufacture of Afghanistan ; Snuff use of as stimulant Afghanistan ; Tools sickles use of in harvesting Afghanistan ; Singing as rhythmic accompaniment to work Afghanistan ; Music

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980