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
Piles of kindling (?).
Black children; loaded carts.
Casting fishnet from banks of canal or stream.
Climbing a palm (?) tree.
People; procession or ceremony, possibly a wedding;
Men with drums.
Little girl with flat umbrella at roadside stand.
“Onion” domes on building.
Footbridge over canal.
People with purple and sequined headgear.
Procession headed by robed flower-carrier entering a covered barge and casting off.
Town scenes; “Brown Betty Dairies” building.
People on wharf
Stick roof construction details, [cu]
Logging operation in river.
Powered loom.
Boat at dock.
Loaded produce boats at wharf.
Scenes from boat on river: note: frame houses on
stilts, steamships, fish nets, sailboats, powered boats with cabin, canoes
