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Story Of The Desert
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keywords: environment, desert climate, ford tri-motor passenger plane, navajo nation, new mexico deserts, oregon reclamation dam project, nile river valley of egypt, deserts of africa
Synopsis: 1930 travelogue of the desert climate around the World with scenes passengers boarding and flying in a Ford Tri-Motor Passenger Plane, the desert and Navajo Nations in New Mexico, reclamation dam project in Oregon and small-town scenes of Harper Oregon, the Nile River valley in Egypt with farmer plowing fields and potter working clay, African desert life and more...(read more)
- Date: 1930's
- Duration: 00:18:33
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: World-Wide
Story Of The Desert
A 1930 travelogue film of the deserts of New Mexico, Oregon, Africa, and Egypt. Mountainous terrain, Ship Rock, Pueblo Indian dance, and people in New Mexico. The Vale Reclamation Dam Project in Oregon; agricultural and urbane scenes in Harper, Oregon. Pyramids, and irrigation in Egypt. African customs, costumes and dances. Desert animals, camel trains and travelers in Egypt.
Shot List:
00:00:20;18
Passengers boarding Ford tri-motor passenger plane, a Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) passenger airline founded in 1928 by Melville Keys and merged with Western Air Express in 1930 to form what became TWA. Ford trimotor passenger plane taking off and in flight. Shows TAT lettering on fuselage of plane. Passengers in a vintage airline passenger plane nicknamed the “Tin Goose”. Civil aviation in the 1930s.
00:01:15;03
Views of Shiprock (rock with wings), a monadnock rising nearly 1583 feet above the high-desert plain on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Scenes of Pueblo Indians and a ceremonial Indian dance.CU of Indian mother with baby.
00:02:06;02
Reclaiming the desert. Scenes of the sage brush desert of Oregon and the Vale Reclamation Dam Project in Oregon; dams, canals, and reservoirs. Shows irrigation and cultivation of farm land in Oregon. Fields of potatoes, onions, and alfalfa hay. Shows a barnyard of little pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle and herds of sheep.
00:06:37;05
Scenes of the main street of a small town, Harper, Oregon in the 1930s. The Harper school house and students.
00:07:22;08
Nile River Valley civilization. Scenes of an old civilization built in the desert in the Valley of the Nile. Shows ancient methods of lifting water from the Nile River for irrigation. Man using ancient plow to plow a field. Potter working clay on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt.
00:09:58;14
Camel train moves past Egyptian Pyramids. Image of a Sphinx. Scenes of a garden of a Pharaoh. Scenes of the ruins of an old Egyptian temple.
00:12:16;03
African customs, costumes and dances. An African dance where men imitate birds.
00:13:53;16
Animals That Live In The Desert. Shows a flock of storks in a tree. Shows Vultures on a wall, CU image of a Vulture. Shows a young deer at a water hole. Images of a Spotted Hyena. Shows a desert fox digging into the hole of a desert rat. Shows native hunters stalking a fowl. Shows camels eating the foliage of trees. Shows a camel caravan traveling across the desert.
