Motion picture film

Museum number:

26-674a,b

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21260674a@2cb

Accession number:

Acc.4723

Description:

Kroeber conversation with Barrett. test footage for Nomad camera/sound system. shot on patio of Lowie Museum. January to October 1960. includes A.L. Kroeber in conversation with Samuel A. Barrett about Klamath River Indian (NW CA) singing, Barrett being interviewed about the use of sound in his prospective film project, students playing musical instruments and singing, Barrett playing California Indian musical instruments. a) one film, 16mm, fine-grain sub-master, black and white positive, with synched optical sound track; 400 ft. on blue plastic reel in blue plastic film canister. b) one magnetic sound track, 16mm, 400 ft., sound for above; dubbed from the Nomad 8mm. sprocketed magnetic sound original 24-3272. digitized: https://archive.org/details/cuhm_000004

Donor:

C. Cameron Macauley

Collection place:

Berkeley, Alameda County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

North America, California, Berkeley

Collector:

C. Cameron Macauley

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

16mm (photographic film size), Audiotapes, Motion pictures (moving images), and Motion pictures (visual works)

Accession date:

September 4, 2001

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

b— length 400 feet and a— length 400 feet

Comment:

Reel B contains soundtrack

Loans:

S1987-1988 #29: UC Berkeley Extension/William R. Heick (January 27, 1988–October 4, 1988)