Pakistan 1953 Reel 7 of 10
Category: Travelogue
Length: 17:36
| Film ID | F16-0077 |
| Film Description | Reel 7 of 10 Unedited travelogue Rawalpindi Gilgit en route Peshawar ShotlistReel 7 of 10Unedited travelogue Rawalpindi Gilgit en route Peshawar 1953: Reel 7: Pakistan. Rawalpindi. Gilgit. En-route to Peshawar. Metal ware for sale; hammering copper bowl. Street scenes: food for sale, working on a metal bowl, houses, note balconies. Airport. Mountains. Pottery making by hand using wheel: examples of finished work. Loaded donkey; stone and straw hut. Leashed bears and monkeys. Nomad camp; note: stick, skin, cloth shelters; wooden mortar with lengthy pestle. [Shi'a] Mosque. Pigeons with underground coop. Hovel; antelope (?) with bird on its back. Wooden water wheel with wooden gear. Town or market scenes: food, scales. Cave-like home; plow; yard. Man operating waterwheel assembly by hand; note: scoops attached to waterwheel; dumping action; wheel rotated by animal; note man on ox-pulled sledge in field. People; landscape Building with painted decoration and script. Building with mosaic. Sheep dyed pink. River; ox-rotated waterwheel. Scooping grain into sack. Street scenes: men sewing; weighing wood; tiles; barber shop. Working design into copper vessel using hammer and awl. Street scenes: people with burdens, shaving a head, police with vendors drawing a crowd, snakes in street. Making jewelry. |
| Video Category | Travelogue |
| Film Creator | Watson Kintner |
| Topics | Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Gilgit, Peshawar, Nomads, Mosques, Pottery |
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