In Search of Lost Worlds (Outtakes)
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1987.16.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Noxon, Nicolas, 1936-2016
label: Collection Creator
content: Rosten, Irwin
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content: Nicholas Noxon and Irwin Rosten collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 70,000 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
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: Outtakes from an M-G-M documentary explore the efforts of scientists to discover the identity and life-style of the earliest American inhabitants. Sites featured are Chaco Canyon (Pueblo Bonito) in New Mexico; Machu Picchu in Peru; Mayan ruins of the Yucatan Pennisula, Mexico; Tehuacan Valley, Mexico; and the earth mounds of central and eastern United States. Footage also explores the discovery of the Olmec civilization by Smithsonian Institution scientist, Matthew Stirling (one time director of the Bureau of American Ethnology).