Thai Images of the Buddha
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.125
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 504 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1963
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: Based on an exhibition of the arts in Thailand with narration based on the historical section of the exhibition catalogue written by Alexander B. Griswold. Documents the transformation of the Buddha image in Thai art from the representation of Buddha as a revered teacher to that of a supreme diety, paralleling the historic course of Buddhism itself.

Credits: Prod. by Indiana University, dir.by Theodore A. Bowie