Unedited film materials
name: label: Collection Producer
content: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Creator
content: Grant, Michael
label: Collection Creator
content: Meech, Richard, 1954-
label: Collection Producer
content: Malone, Adrian
label: Collection Producer
content: Biniman Productions (Firm)
label: Collection Host
content: Maybury-Lewis, David, 1929-2007
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content: Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1,336 Film reels (in 399 cans, silent color negative outtakes and trims, 16mm)
label: Extent
content: 172 Sound cassettes
label: Extent
content: 701 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch tape)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1989-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2012.13, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of original, unedited film and sound materials from the Millennium film project, 1989-1991 and undated. It contains original color negative film, much of which did not make the final edited episode cuts, and 1/4 inch audio tapes of original field sound and translations. Subject labels indicate tribal groups, individuals, or recording locations, and span the globe. Note that footage of a subject may have appeared in multiple episodes and thus cannot be keyed to a specific title; see episode list at beginning of finding aid for final episode content.

Original film materials within the Millennium collection comprise just over 1300 rolls of silent camera original rolls. Rolls are of two types: outtakes (1253 rolls, 400 feet or less each), and trims (65 rolls, 1000 feet each). These materials do not appear in the final cuts of the program. Film rolls have been rehoused into archival cans of 2-12 rolls each.

Note that as these rolls are camera original film, they are printed with "latent key numbers" along the edge of the film, or codes that advance sequentially through the roll. Each roll is associated with a unique range of latent key numbers, allowing researchers to trace camera original film through the editing process and narrow down filming order. Sequences removed from trims and outtakes for use in final episode cuts are also associated with these latent key number ranges. The National Anthropological Film Collection holds searchable lists of the collection's latent key numbers; contact the NAFC for more detail. Also see subseries 3.1. Removals cards, for the latent key number ranges of sequences removed from outtake and trim rolls during the editing process.

Original sound recordings are largely 1/4 inch audio tape with sync pulses, and comprises field sound and translations, as well as some apparent David Maybury-Lewis narration. These recordings' inclusion in final program edits is undetermined. Sound recordings are minimally processed as of July 2017; contact the NAFC for more information.

This series is arranged in 3 subseries: 2.1 Outtakes, 1989-1991, undated; 2.2 Trims, 1989-1991, undated; 2.3 Sound recordings, 1989-1991, undated.