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Films Shared Back

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: July 16, 2012

Back in the 1980s when video cameras became ubiquitous they slowly made their way around the world, and we started to get videos from indigenous communities in Brazil, such as the  Videos in the Villages collective, and productions from native Alaskan people such as KYUK tv. It is an eye opener for audiences to see [...]

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A true translation: Updates on Matto Grosso (1931), and The Hoax (1932)

By Kate Pourshariati | Published: January 4, 2012

Regular readers of the Penn Museum blog may recall a post about an exciting film re-identification and discovery, in which we realized that the film that we thought was The Kid was really called The Hoax (1932) and that a copy was in the collections of the Smithsonian. By way of University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. [...]

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