Films and film-related sound recordings
name: label: Collection Director
content: Porterfield, Jeanne
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content: Chickering, Lisa
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
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content: 2 Sound cassettes
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content: 5 Videocassettes (Digital Betacam)
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content: 5 Electronic discs (DVD)
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content: 33 Film reels (16mm)
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content: 5 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch)
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content: circa 1960-2015
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: HSFA.2015.16, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Videocassettes (digital betacam)
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content: Electronic discs (dvd)
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content: Film reels
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content: Sound tape reels
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content: Series 7 consists of Viewpoints, Inc. film and video elements and related sound recordings from circa 1960-2015. These materials directly relate to Chickering and Porterfield's professional film output and consist of edited and unedited film in a variety of formats as well as recordings of the corresponding lectures delivered by Chickering and Porterfield on the travel lecture circuit.

Elements include Kodachrome camera original film in the form of workprints and outtakes; Kodak prints of the edited films, made for potential projection and distribution; videocassette and DVD transfers of the same; and sound recordings used or recorded on tour, including lecture narrative recordings and field sound. Lecture recordings are largely undated but provide a glimpse into the timing and delivery of (and audience reaction to) Chickering and Porterfield's longer lecture films. Some recordings include snippets of other performers. 

Chickering and Porterfield released five full-length (70-80 minute) silent travelogues through the production company Viewpoints, Inc. in the 1960s and early 1970s: Austria à la Carte (1960), Caribbean Dutch Treat (1963), Bravo Portugal! (1965), Europe's Mini-Countries (1968), and Winter in Mexico (1973). Chickering and Porterfield acted as directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors on each film.

Viewpoints, Inc. also released two shorter 30-minute public relations sound films sponsored by Volkswagen of America: Four Seasons of Austria (1962, which used footage from Austria à la Carte) and Portugal with Pleasure (1968, which used footage from Bravo Portugal!). Curaçao: The Caribbean Dutch Treat (circa 1963) appears to be a trailer or excerpt from the longer film.

This series is arranged in the following subseries chronologically according to film release date: 7.1 Austria à la Carte, circa 1960; 7.2 Four Seasons of Austria, circa 1962; 7.3 Four Seasons of Austria (Outtakes), circa 1962; 7.4 Caribbean Dutch Treat, circa 1963; 7.5Curaçao: The Caribbean Dutch eat (Trailer), circa 1963; 7.6 Bravo Portugal!, circa 1965; 7.7 Portugal with Pleasure, circa 1968; 7.8 Europe's Mini-Countries, circa 1968; and 7.9 Winter in Mexico, circa 1973.