Theodore Richards World Travel Footage (1993.25.1 - 3)
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1993.25.1 - 3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Richards, Theodore
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content: Theodore Richards travel films
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content: Theodore Richards travel films / Theodore Richards World Travel Footage (1993.25.1)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (37 minutes, black-and-white silent; 997 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1924-1928
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
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content: Footage taken by Theodore Richards, a minister who lived in Hawaii, of an around-the-world cruise. This roll captures Durban, South Africa "Zulu Rickshaw boys" and other locales in South Africa include train stops in the countryside (Notwani and Bulawayo); Worlds View Outspan, Cecil Rhodes grave; trolley routes C and B; possibly Herero village; African school; staged Zulu "war" with men and women in decorative head and body dress; visit to missions including Union Church Boarding School for girls (church service, school buildings, African associates of the mission, white faculty, farm and dairy activities, water spring, kitchen, dormitory, and dining room), Mission Nursing home (Dr. Taylor, patients, maternity ward, school for blind and operating room); and the Bridgeman Memorial Hospital (an American Board Mission clinic) in Johannesburg. Cruise continues up the African coast possibly to Mozambique or Madagascar (street scenes and women picking leaves of unidentified plant); ship crosses the equator (Neptune ceremony, dancing, and games); unidentified harbor and possibly Sumatra and then Bali.