AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 15
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 (1,807 feet) assembled film rolls 24 (camera rolls 47,48) and 25 (camera rolls 49,50), 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: boys working on a threshing floor sweeping up grain; portions of grain being distributed to villagers--measured and put into burlap sacks; women receiving portions of wheat; scenes of boys using a throw net to fish in the river while watering their herd of sheep at river's edge; boys swimming in the river; shots of Afhgan nomad encampment along dry river bed; long-range shots of characteristically Bedouin encampment with camels; a village volleyball match; scenes of camels grazing on a slope; marketplace scenes with shots of produce displayed; the butcher shop; vendors in their shaded stalls, peregrinations around the marketplace showing the activitly of buyers.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Wheat winnowing Afghanistan ; Fishing nets g ; Nomads habitations Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Games ; Markets Afghanistan ; Camels caravans loads Afghanistan ; Herding sheep Afghanistan

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