The Land of Genghis Kahn
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.102
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; 359 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 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 "Along the Road to Romance on the Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film documents Inner Mongolia including the city of Chindamani and the Gobi Desert. Activities shown are a "devil dance," a festival including the living Buddha in Mongolia, scenes of Mongolian ponies and their herders and a camel caravan travelling across the Gobi Desert. The narrator briefly discusses Buddhism in Mongolia and the life of Genghis Kahn.  

Legacy Keywords: Ponies ; Herders ; Buddhism ; Camels as carriers ; Dance ; Festival