Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon Footage
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content: HSFA 1994.6.2
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content: Hamilton Rice Expedition films
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content: 7 Film reels (1 hour and 14 minutes, black-and-white silent; 4,920 feet, 355)
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content: 1924-1925
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Footage taken during the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon (Brazil) which was conducted in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University. The expedition was undertaken particularly for geographical exploration and medical investigation. On this last Hamilton Rice expedition to the easterly tributaries of the Rio Negro, he used a hydroplane (Eleanor III) and was the first to take a short wave radio into the field. The expedition was undertaken particularly for geographical exploration and medical investigation. Film footage includes river travel and navigating rapids, expedition camps and camp life (cooking, eating, shaving), visiting river town, tribal groups living along the river, setting up and using short wave radio, gathering rock samples, flora, medical assistance to locals, plane flying and landing, aerial views, and hunting birds.

Supplementary materials: Spanish article on medical aspects of expedition