In Rural Maharashtra
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1994.19.26 [sic]
name: label: Collection Film distributor
content: Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services
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content: Penn State educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (12 minutes, black-and-white sound; 447 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: Edited film produced by the Prahbat Film Company of New Delhi for the Government of India's Department of Information and Broadcasting is a record of rural daily life in west-central India. Film focusses on activities of men and women in agriculture (grinding corn for food, fetching well water, care of livestock and sowing, reaping, threshing, winnowing and bagging corn. Other scenes include celebrations surrounding a wedding ceremony and an agricultural "fair" or festival including the cattle market, bullock-cart racing and wrestling matches.

Legacy Keywords:  Asia ; India ; Maharashtra ; Marathi