Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana
name: label: Creator
content: Hood, Mantle
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Ghana
topic: label: Topic
content: Music
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from American Film Institute (National Center for Film and Video Preservation) in 1988.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hood, Mantle
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound master positive and negative, A and B rolls; 475 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1988.19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: ATUMPAN:  THE TALKING DRUMS OF GHANA, edited film produced in the 1960's by Mantle Hood.

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