South America
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1995.11.7
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jones, R. Bryson
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content: R. Bryson Jones travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (38 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1941
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: Incomplete edited film used by an amateur travel-lecturer documents travel in South America, particularly the Andean Highlands. Footage includes scenes in an Andean town (street activity; women and children; large outdoor market; women selling baskets, pottery, tiles, and potatoes; man milking cow and selling cups of milk; a mobile calliope; man with macaws or parrots; and a religious festival or parade); tourists climbing with pack animals to Machu Picchu; smaller Andean town, probably in Peru, (market, Quechua Indians, and a religious procession from church with priest); Andean peoples harvesting potatoes; Lake Titicaca (reed boats moored together and man sailing with reed sail); train ride through the altiplano (views of mountain peaks and ravines, and people peddling wares to passengers at station stops); children in school or orphanage; pedestrians and cars crossing hanging bridges; men leveling road through mountains and herds of llamas. Also shown are scenes of an unidentified city (automobiles, trolley wires, and military parade), cruise ship at unidentified port (lowering passengers to tender in "bosun's chair" and later loading people from pier onto the tender and back onto the ship) and river scenes (various rafts and barges being poled, rowed or sculled and loading bananas onto river steamer). Scenes of New York Harbor and skyline are shown from cruise ship.