Munni: Childhood and Art in Mithila
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.96
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1044 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1983
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: Looks at the life of a young girl in the Indian village of Mithila. Tells how changes in roles and attitudes have come to women there through ancient traditions of painting. Munni learns the old ways from her grandmother and the new from her aunt. Her daily life exhibits the values of family and cultural continuity that are her legacy.

Credits: Prod. by University of Wisconsin, World Art Films Inc, South Asian Films; Prod. by Joseph Elder, Dir. by Cheryl Groff, Ron Hess, Raymond Lee Owens