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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hindu ‘Fasting Fair’ Feast (Darsham of Nithoba at Pardhaper ?? - Original writing poor and indistinct). DESCRIPTION: Hindu "Fasting Feast" affords rare study for Camera artist....
A journey through the heart of India, from Delhi in the north through Benares, the sacred city on the Ganges; through Jaidal, a village in the Ganges plain; through Calcutta, India’s largest city; and into...
CBS News footage of the Tet offensive during the Vietnam war, which started when the Viet Cong struck on the day of the Tet festival, the most sacred of all Vietnamese festivals. This was the most important...
The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...
Estonian Arvo Pärt is widely regarded as one of today’s most original creators of music. Largely self-taught, he is remote from the mainstream of the contemporary avant-garde. Much of his music is bound...
Traces the steps of Abdul Hafidh Wentzel, his wife and children, European converts to Islam, as they prepare for their sacred pilgramage, the Hajj, and travel from their home in Dusseldorf to the holy cities...
The action of this sequence is at night with ceremonial dancing both outside and inside the ceremonial house. The second- and third-stage initiates endure an almost total ban on eating and drinking until...
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bengal (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complenentarity and difference of gender...
Show some of the most revered places in the world and sacred ceremonies seldom seen by outsiders. Includes interviews with some of the men and women - from art restorers to Roman Catholic leaders - who live...
NoS Summary - Various shots of temples in Bangkok. British Pathe synopsis: Bangkok, Thailand. "Towering above this Siamese City, the Royal Palace - striking and strange to Western eyes - " L/S of the Royal...
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