AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 8
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 (50 minutes, two film reels (1,762 feet) assembled film rolls 14 (camera rolls 27,28) and 15 (camera rolls 29,30), 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: a work group of men and boys gathering material for brooms on the mountainside; long-range shots which establish perspective on the relationship of the village to surrounding terrain; workers bundling brush to be used as brooms and loading the bundles on donkey; return to the village; a communal work group of men clearing and dredging the canal leading from the river; men removing the makeshift dam at the mouth of the canal.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Work groups Afghanistan ; Canals irrigation Afghanistan ; Irrigation gardens Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Brooms materials used Afghanistan ; Dwellings domestic compounds Afghanistan ; Ecology use of Afghanistan ; Tools shovels use of Afghanistan ; Burdens carrying of use of animals Afghanistan ; Bundling broom materials Afghanistan ; Nomads camel caravans Afghanistan ; Streets walled villages Afghanistan ; Singing as palliative to work Afghanistan

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