Travel Footage: Caribbean and South America (2004.22.4-2)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2004.22.4-2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Link, Walter, 1902-1982
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content: Walter Link travel films
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content: Walter Link travel films / Travel Footage: Caribbean and South America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (16 minutes, black-and-white silent; 400 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film footage, shot in the Caribbean and South America by oil explorer and geologist Walter Link, records daily life in a variety of locations as well as shots of tourist locations. Locations are not identified, but footage includes: geological and geothermal features; harvesting and transporting bananas; field workers; fellow oil explorers traveling and resting in camps; river travel and river crossings; an attempt at a bullfight with a local animal; brief scenes of dancing; and local architecture as well as landscape panoramas. Much of the footage is given to individual and group portraits of a diverse selection of locals, many of whom interact with the cameraman.