Frances Emerick films
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1980.5.1
name: label: Creator
content: Emerick, Frances
place: label: Place
content: South Asia
label: Place
content: East Asia
label: Place
content: Southeast Asia
label: Place
content: India
label: Place
content: Hong Kong
label: Place
content: Manila (Philippines)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Frances Emerick in 1980.
creator: label: Creator
content: Emerick, Frances
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white color silent positive; 1600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1933
label: Date
content: 1956
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Frances Emerick's Travel Footage of India 1927-1933"
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1980.05
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot in Sholapur, Maharashtra district, Udaipur, Rajasthan district, and various other sites while travelling through India. Footage includes: Sholapur Teachers Training School; forms of transportation (ship, railroad, trolley, automobile, bicycle, barge, junks, ox cart, and camel-drawn wagons); street life (street vendors, shopkeepers, textile processing, clothes washing, military drill, children swordfighting, and pipe smoking); music, dance and ceremonial activities (a sitar player accompanied by drums, finger cymbals, and other instruments); a water buffalo sacrifice; wedding procession; sword dancers; river procession of a maharaja and retainers; a military brass band; and the Taj Mahal.

Footage of Hong Kong and Manila in 1956.

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