Below is a collection of films made in and about Guyana circa 1948, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@museum.upenn.edu.
Below is a collection of films made in and about Guyana circa 1948, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@museum.upenn.edu.
All of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum
No Sound
1948 – Penn Museum collection
Scenes from airplane window.
Grass roofed buildings; people on a highway; general scenes along road.
Holy Perseverance Bar.
Wooden and thatched buildings and shelters. Fruit for sale.
Cart, bicycle, foot traffic.
Sailboat.
Fairly large town. Clock tower. Market.
People on deck of ship.
Carts parked in town.
Street scenes.
Canal.
Food for sale in shelved wooden box.
Sign: “Alex, Gabb. Tin and Gutter Smith”
Sign: “General Store”
Umbrella over food at side of road.
Many wooden foot bridges over canal or stream.
Horse-drawn barge in canal.
Small canoe upside down.
Man carrying bundle of sticks.
Octagonal wooden church (?) with steeple.
Land crabs or spiders.
Boats in stream.
Marsh.
Sign: “Radio service”
Town: houses have extensions built on piers over canal.
Large corrugated metal-roofed shelter.
Large stone arch standing alone
