The Wind and the River
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 (11 minutes, black-and-white sound; 396 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced by Svensk Filmindustri, Stockholm, is an impressionistic view of daily life along the Jehlum River in Kashmir, India. Scenes include activities along the river bank (men and women washing clothes, men poling barge upriver, boy paddling alone, musicians and women dancing and boats passing by), women grinding grain, men harvesting weeds and mud from the bottom of Lake Dal for water gardens, and saddhus (holy men) praying. Soundtrack was recorded in Kashmir and has no narration.

Legacy Keywords: Arne Sucksdorf ;  Asia ; Kashmir (India) ; Kashmiri