Philippine Fantasy
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.114
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 339 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936
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: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for the "Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film depicts various scenes of the Philippines including Manila. The film shows the city with its seashore, buildings and markets. The film shows the tobacco industry with women rolling cigars and cigarettes, the coconut industry and men making rope out of hemp. The Bilibid prison is also shown. Mountain people of the Philippines are shown with their intricate irrigation system of rice fields known as the Banaue rice Terraces. Film is narrated by Ed Thorgersen.

Legacy Keywords: Cities and towns ; Architecture Philippines ; Markets ; Industry Philippines ; Tobacco Philippines ; Coconut products g ; Rope making Philippines ; Irrigation ; Rice as a crop Asia ; Prison Philippines ; Indigenous peoples