Explorations in the Amazons Basin
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content: HSFA 1994.6.1
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content: Hamilton Rice Expedition films
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content: 6 Film reels (64 minutes, black-and-white sound; 5,777 feet, 35mm)
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content: 1930-1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film made from the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon (Brazil) which was conducted in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University. On this last expedition of Hamilton Rice to the easterly tributaries of the Rio Negro, he used a hydroplane (Eleanor III) and was the first to take a short wave radio into the field. The expedition was undertaken particularly for geographical exploration and medical investigation. Film footage includes river travel and navigating rapids, expedition camps and camp life (cooking, eating, shaving), visiting river town, tribal groups living along the river, setting up and using short wave radio, gathering rock samples, flora, medical assistance to locals, plane flying and landing, aerial views, and hunting birds. Film of Rice explaining the expedition and tracing the route is intercut with the film footage of the expedition. The sound track is Rice narrating the expedition.

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