Thomas Horton Associates Easter Island films
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2012.9.1
place: label: Place
content: Islands of the Pacific
label: Place
content: Easter Island
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Thomas Horton in 2012.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 36 Film reels (color sound; 35,148 feet)
label: Extent
content: 25 Video recordings (12 hours 30 minutes, color sound; BetacamSP)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2012.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record directed by Andrew Clark Horton and filmed by Geoffrey Hoffman for a television documentary that was never produced.  Footage includes an interview with Thor Heyderdahl, Birdman cult re-enactment of swim to rock, caves with human bones, quarry and the Moai heads (large head stone statues) before they were raised to current positions, petroglyphs, archeological survey and interviews with native islanders and a "rapanui rendevous" meeting of elders and anthropologists.  Collection also includes a copy of the 1934-35 Franco-Belgian expedition and interviews with and home movies of Dr. William Mulloy.


Legacy keywords: Islands ; Marine animals ; Archeology Chile ; Inscriptions ; Language and culture ; Beaches

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