AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 22
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (33 minutes, one film reel (1,175 feet) assembled film rolls 38 (camera rolls 75,76), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
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: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: scenes of activity at a threshing floor where men are winnowing wheat--scenes of the chaff being blown off in the wind; long-range shots of the dry mountainous terrain; herders driving goats up the adjacent mountainside; boy playing a flute as men work at winnowing; early morning scenes in the village around the shops/marketplace; men carrying water for day's use; shopkeepers setting out their produce and wares; two men hauling melons in a blanket; shopkeeper setting out the melons; men cleaning out their shops and setting up; filmic peregrinations through the marketplace as the day's round begins.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Agricultural activities winnowing Afghanistan ; Herding goats Afghanistan ; Garb turbans skullcaps Muslims Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry herding Afghanistan ; Shops vendors Afghanistan ; Winnowing wheat threshing floors Afghanistan ; Work groups agricultural activities Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Music singing as palliative to work Afghanistan ; Markets vendors Afghanistan ; Food preparation markets vendors Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980