AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 17
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 (51 minutes, two film reels (1,843 feet) assembled film rolls 29 (camera rolls 57,58) and 30 (camera rolls 59,60), 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: Afghan nomads in the interior of their tent being interviewed; sheep and camels being driven to the river; activity in a garden which includes scenes of boys preparing furrors for planting, tending irrigation ditches, and breaking up clods of dirt with shovels; men and boys returning from threshing floor carrying sifters; men in the marketplace examining goats, blankets; market scenes including storefront shots, merchants with buyers, a boy having his head shaved, vendors, leatherworkers and carpenters.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Planting gardens melons Afghanistan ; Irrigation gardens Afghanistan ; Nomads habitations tents Afghanistan ; Garb turbans skullcaps Muslims Afghanistan ; Markets vendors Afghanistan ; Gardens tillage planting irrigation Afghanistan ; Meals tea male sociability Afghanistan ; Merchants markets Afghanistan ; Shops eating vendors Afghanistan ; Hair treatment of shaving Afghanistan ; Barbers Afghanistan ; Carpentry Afghanistan ; Leather industry tools Afghanistan

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