- Title: V-A5109
- Summary: LIBERIA: AFRICA'S ONLY REPUBLIC: LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA. AFRICAN VILLAGE. AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES. LIBERIAN FAMILY LIFE. CRAFTSMEN. BUILDING A CIRCULAR HOUSE. VILLAGE MEETING. RUBBER INDUSTRY.
- Description:02:13:59 - MAP OF AFRICA. ZOON IN, LIBERIA 02:14:19 - SCENIC SHORELINE, OCEAN. SUNSET 02:15:07 - PAN HEAVILY FORESTED INTERIOR. FOREST 02:15:37 - RAINBOW OVER TREES 02:15:44 - PAN FOREST INTERIOR 02:15:55 - RAINFALL IN THE FOREST. DENSE TROPICAL FOREST. RIVERS, SCENIC NATURE BEAUTY SHOTS 02:16:54 - AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES, FOOD CROP MONTAGE: RUBBER TREES. AFRICAN OIL PALM, BANANAS, COCOANUT PALM, CASSAVA (MANIOC) 02:17:17 - COLORFUL FLOWER MONTAGE, CU HIBISCUS, AFRICAN MOONFLOWER, POINSETTIAS, 02:17:43 - LIBERIANS CIRCA EARLY 1950s. TRIBE WALKING ON FOREST PATH. FOOTPATH AND BRIDGE CONNECT TRIBAL VILLAGES. VILLAGERS CARRYING ALL SORTS OF THINGS CROSS PRIMITIVE BRIDGE. FOOD. POTTERY 02:18:53 - LIBERIAN VILLAGE. YOUNG MEN PASS CARRYING PRIMITIVE BACKPACKS FILLED WITH GOODS, SUPPLIES PAN VILLAGE THATCHED ROOF HOUSES. 02:19:35 - SHEPHERD MOVES HIS HERD. 02:19:47 - WORKERS PLANTING CASSAVA. FOOD CROPS. AGRICULTURE. MANIOC. 02:20:08 - LIBERIAN FAMILY LIFE. HOUSEWIFE WINNOWING RICE, CHAFFING, TOSSING IN THE AIR. ANOTHER SIFTS IN SHALLOW BOWL. PRIMITIVE MORTAR AND PESTLE. 02:20:37 - HUMAN SCARECROW. VILLAGER GUARDS THE CROPS. 02:20:54 - WORKERS GATHER CLUSTERS OF AFRICAN OIL PALM 02:21:22 - VILLAGE FISHERMEN IN ROWBOAT GOING OCEAN FISHING 02:21:30 - WOMEN SEINING IN FRESH WATER POOL 02:21:40 - WOMAN AND CHILD GATHER FRESH WATER FROM BROOK 02:21:57 - TRIBAL CRAFTSMAN WEAVING COLORFUL BLANKET 02:22:16 - VILLAGE MEN SING TRIBAL WORK SONG, CHANT AS MEN WEAVE MAT 02:22:38 - OUTDOOR POTTERY WORKSHOP, MAN HAND CRANKS POTTER'S WHEEL. ELABORATE NATIVE CLAY POTTERY. NATIVE HANDICRAFTS 02:23:01 - TRIBE BLACKSMITH AT WORK PORTABLE ANVIL & GOATSKIN BELLOWS 02:23:16 - VILLAGERS BUILDING CIRCULAR HOUSE. POLES. MUD WALLS. LONG STICKS BOUND INTO PLACE SERVE AS A LATHE. LARGE RAFTERS FASTENED TO CENTER POLE. SHAPING CONICAL ROOF. ENDS CHOPPED OFF WITH MACHETES. RAFTERS LACED WITH SHEATHING OF VINES & TWIGS. THATCHED ROOF. FRONDS TIED IN BUNDLES. 02:25:53 - FAMILY CARRYING POSSESSIONS MOVES INTO NEW HOME 02:26:14 - FAMILY COMES OUTSIDE, SIT IN FRONT, FEELING AT HOME. MOTHER HOLDING YOUNG BABY. BOYS BOUNCE RUBBER BALL. BOY HITS THE BALL WITH HIS HEAD. HEADER. 02:26:38 - VILLAGE MEETING CHIEFS AND ELDERS MEET IN OPEN FORUM. MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING A SHEEP TELLS HIS SIDE OF THE STORY TO VILLAGE ELDERS. 02:27:52 - MODERN PLANE LANDS IN ROBERTS FIELD. LIBERIAN AIRPORT. 02:28:43 - RADIO TOWERS, TOWER FIELD. RADIO SERVICE. 02:28:56 - 1940s CAR DRIVES ON PRIMITIVE ROAD THROUGH FOREST 02:29:07 - FARMINGTON RIVER HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT, DAM 02:29:37 - FISHERMAN FISHING IN DAM WATERS NET FISHING 02:29:53 - MODERN HOMES, PLANTATION HOMES. LIBERIA. WOOD PANELED 1940s TRUCK. 02:30:12 - EXTERIOR MODERN DISPENSARY. 02:30:21 - LIBERIAN TECHNICIAN, LAND SURVEYOR 02:30:30 - LIBERIAN TRADE SCHOOL BOOKER WASHINGTON INSTITUTE KAKATA. BOYS LEARNING TRADES. 02:31:00 - CU LATEX OOZING OUT FROM UNDER BARK OF RUBBER TREE INTO BUCKET. MILKY WHITE FLUID. 02:31:32 - POV WALKING DOWN "AVENUE" OF RUBBER TREES. 02:31:46 - LIBERIAN RUBBER PLANTING PROCESS, MEN WITH AXES CUT DOWN TREES, CLEARING GIANT TREES. HUGE TREES FALLING. MANY MEN WORKING TO THE BEAT OF NATIVE DRUMS. 02:34:06 - PAN CLEARED LAND. BURNING FELLED JUNGLE GROWTH WORKMEN SET FIRE WITH LONG BAMBOO TORCH. CONTROLLED FIRES. MASSIVE PLUME OF SMOKE RISING 02:35:48 - WORKERS PLANTING NUT LIKE RUBBER TREE SEEDS IN NURSERY. 02:36:06 - SEED GROWING INTO YOUNG TREES AT NURSERY. BUD GRAFTING TURNS THE SEEDLINGS INTO HIGH YIELDING TREES. CU WORKER CUTTING INTO THE BARK OF THE SEEDLING. CUTTING A "WINDOW". CUTTING LIVING BUD FROM A TREE, TRIMMED, PLACED INTO THE WINDOW CUT IN SEEDLING. BOUND IN PLACE. WOUND TAPED & SEALED WITH WAX. CUTTING AWAY THE SEEDLING TOP. IN TIME, GRAFTED CHUTE BECOMES THE TRUNK & TOP OF RUBBER TREE 02:38:11 - TILT UP "CLONAL RUBBER" TREE YOUNG RUBBER TREE 02:38:30 - WORKERS ALIGNING & HOLING IN CLEARED AREA. LAND SURVEYOR. LAND MEASURES & MARKED WITH POLES TREE LOCATIONS. WORKERS DIG HOLES, PLANTING PREVIOUSLY BUDDED ROOT ANCHORED CAREFULLY. RUBBER TREES. 02:40:47 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-A5109