George Eaton Simpson film of Plaisance, Haiti
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1992.12.1
name: label: Creator
content: Simpson, George Eaton, 1904-1998
place: label: Place
content: Caribbean Area
label: Place
content: Haiti
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from George Eaton Simpson in 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Simpson, George Eaton, 1904-1998
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (18 minutes, black-and-white silent; 451 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1992.12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot in Plaisance, northern Haiti in conjunction with fieldwork. Shots include: a communal work group or combite organized to weed a field and construct a peasant house; a funeral procession; a social gathering (with musical ensemble, drumming, and dancing) at a peasant house; a wedding procession; various demonstrations of dance styles by men; and a demonstration of baton twirling typical of the major donc in rara festivities.  Collection contains associated texts.

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