Footage of Indonesia (2004.22.1-5)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2004.22.1-5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Link, Walter, 1902-1982
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content: Walter Link travel films
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content: Walter Link travel films / Footage of Indonesia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (22 minutes, black-and-white silent; 600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1934
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: Film footage moderately edited with no intertitles, shot in Indonesia by oil explorer and geologist Walter Link, records daily aspects of camp life for oil explorers. No geographic indications are given, but almost all footage is within various camps. Depicted are tasks such as cooking and eating game and fruit; repairing tools; constructing a house; and tending to personal hygiene, accompanied by several individual portraits of both Western and local camp inhabitants. In this reel Link also extensively documents the local wildlife, including a captured snake, a baby bear on a leash and several bugs shot on white backgrounds.