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AVMPI-Media

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Browse and watch selected audiovisual collection items from across the Smithsonian's Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) partner museum units and research centers.


  • Human Studies Film Archives 172 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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1946 Road Into Honduras -- Honduras-Nicaragua

1958 Cooperative Part 2 (ceramics making) - El Salvador

1976 Okitsu, Japan Part 3

1946 Antigua- Guatemala

1946 Fortín Pt. 3 - Mexico

1972 Sveti Stefan

1946 Children With Camera - Guatemala

1958 Panama Canal Part 2 - Panama

1946 Lake Coatepeque- El Salvador

1960 Nice, France

1972 Hvar

1976 Tokyo, Japan Part 1

1960 Cannes, France

Historic footage of Paniolo cowboys in Hawaii (ca. 1937)

Battle of Puebla, Mexico (1968)

John Bull: Riding the Rails (1981)

Unedited footage from Murals of Aztlan by James Tartan 1981

Cornelia Chapin Home movies, horse show, 1936

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 9

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 8

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 7

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 5

Cornelia Chapin home movies, "Hilltop Happenings, Harpursville, Summer 1932"

1939 NY World's Fair, construction of frieze

Municipal Center Frieze, Washington, DC

Robert Laurent home movies

Face-off

Walking (interstices)

Omar is el uno

Ralph Rinzler on Deaf Folklore at the 1981 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Junkyard Band at the 1987 Smithsonian Folklife Festival


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