In Search of Lost Worlds
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1989.22.24
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Films Incorporated
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content: Films Inc. educational films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 1,800 ft)
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: Edited film created for M-G-M surveys what is known and unknown of early American inhabitants. Archeological sites featured are Chaco Canyon (Pueblo Bonito), New Mexico; Machu Picchu, Peru; Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico; and the earth mounds of central and eastern United States. Also explored is the discovery of the Olmec civilization by Smithsonian Institution scientist, Matthew Stirling (one-time director of the Bureau of American Ethnology.). Noxon, Nicholas filmmaker