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Footage of various student activity around campus at Indiana University - Bloomington during the fall season. Includes aerial shots. This footage may have been shot with the intention of using it for promotional purposes.
Depicted here are scenes of Japan, most likely shot by members of the United States Armed Forces. Some of the film was shot in Osaka. This film was shot circa 1939.
Depicted here are random scenes of Japanese life that was likely shot by a United States Armed Forces soldier. Some of the film was shot in Osaka. Some highlights include a trip to the horse racing track, people crossing a narrow footbridge, and Japanese farming. This film was shot circa 1939.
Depicted here is a family road trip through the Southwestern United States. Highlights include vistas of the city of San Francisco, a blimp in the sky, Stanford University, and the General Sherman sequoia tree. The reel ends with footage of Pima Point and Navajo Point in the Grand Canyon Village, Arizona and the Cliff Palace of the Anasazi people, in Colorado.
Depicted here is a family road trip, with the dog, through parts of Nevada and California in the western United States of America. Highlights include flora and fauna, mountain ranges, streams and waterfalls. Also of note is the O'Shaughnessy Dam.
Depicted here is a family as it travels by car through the United States of America. Some highlights include military barracks, downtown Watertown, NY, minor flooding, and the pastoral beauty of the northern United States with a bias toward bodies of water.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin, Nellie Feil, David Hellerstein, Amy Feil, Harold S. Feil, Beth Hellerstein, George H. Feil, Helen Kahn Weil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Ellen Feil, George Feil, Julius Weil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Stanley M. Feil, Kathryn Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein
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Compilation reel of home movies from 1967-1968. Begins with a family cookout at the Ed Feil home. The children mill about and play in the yard and the neighbor's yard as Vicki grills hot dogs.
Spring 1968 (?): Eddie and a friend play outside while wearing coats. The camera follows Kenny as he toddles about.
June 1968: Naomi and the boys visit a duck pond ; a group of children, including Eddie, Kenny, and Beth play on a swing set and in a kiddie pool in the yard ; A card shows the date as June 19, 1968. The occasion is another family cookout in the Ed Feil yard, this time as a celebration for Nellie's birthday.
Footage of the coastal village of Kirkjubøur in the Faroe Islands. Primarily shows the rural landscape and inside of St. Magnus Cathedral. Brief exterior shots of Saint Olav's Church.
Footage of the coastal village of Kirkjubøur in the Faroe Islands. Primarily shows the local landscape and wandering sheep. Features exterior shots of Saint Olav's Church.
A continuation of the home movie footage from [Lake Michigan and Calumet River ca. 1967]. This film focuses more on the river's industrial activity, showing trains, warehouses, and large piles of limestone.
A continuation of the home movie footage from [Lake Michigan and Calumet River ca. 1967 #2]. This film focuses more on the river's industrial activity and large shipping boats.
A continuation of the home movie footage from [Lake Michigan and Calumet River ca. 1967 #3]. This film focuses on the river's industrial activity, showing factories, trains, large ships.
Home movie taken while sailing in Lake Michigan and down the Calumet River circa 1967. Mostly shaky footage of the skyline and industrial activity along the river, possibly taken from a tourist boat.
Home movie documenting a day trip to Lake Paradise, near Bailey's hometown of Mattoon, Illinois. Shows many scenes of the lake and people boating and fishing. Ends with the image of a woman working in a corn field by a silo.
Footage documenting Bailey's travels to the Canary Islands circa 1971. Shows the metropolitan area and seaport of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, including the Don Juan hotel. We see Bailey is traveling with her husband, Carson Ritchie.
An advertisement for Lawson's Butter Pecan ice cream in which a narrator tells a man that he should do one remarkable thing each day and eat the product.
Footage of a pilot taking off, shot from inside the aircraft. The camera is positioned on the front of the plane, looking back at the pilot. After doing several stunt tricks in the air, he also demonstrates landing.
This collection consists of music, oral data, and interviews among the Kpelle of Liberia and includes popular zither, lamellphone, musical bow, lute, slit-drum and xylophone music; Kpelle script interviews; children's songs, work-songs, drum signals, tales, cante-fables and music associated with rites and ceremonies. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
An advertisement for Maple Lane Chocolate Milk in which a narrator discusses how the product is made over scenes of people reaching for various chocolates.
Depicted here is a family road trip along the coast of California, USA; the family brought their dog with them. The road trip is mostly centered around visiting the missions along El Camino Real.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Ken Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Jonathan Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, George Feil, Edward G. Feil, Leslie Feil, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Betsy Feil, David Hellerstein, Kathryn Hellerstein
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Home movie of a joint birthday party for Mary Hellerstein and her daughter, Beth at the Harold Feil home. Shows Mary blowing out the candles on a cake, then she and Beth open presents together while surrounded by cousins. Naomi can be seen holding a newborn Kenny.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Naomi Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil, George H. Feil, Vicki Rubin, Kathryn Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Betsy Feil, Leslie Feil, Ken Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, David Hellerstein, George Feil, Jonathan Hellerstein, Beth Rubin
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A joint birthday party for Mary, Ellen, Amy, and Susan at the Harold Feil home. Each is given a cake and blows out the candles. The family then gathers in the living room, where gifts are opened. Eddie and George dance for the camera. The film then shows a children's party at the Ed Feil home. Naomi wears face paint and bunny ears. The children play party games in the yard.
Begins with the same woman in a corn field from the end of [Lake Paradise, Illinois ca. 1966] and agricultural workers operating machinery. Also features some footage of Bailey's hometown of Mattoon, Illinois, including the square and The Little Theatre.
Home movie capturing Bailey's hometown of Mattoon. Similar to other films of Bailey's documenting rural Illinois, showing corn fields and oil wells at work. Offers a glimpse of the exterior of the Bailey family home at 1516 Wabash Avenue in Mattoon. Bailey then visits a ranch-style home belonging to an unknown family and tours the garden.
Yucatec Maya lexical and grammatical elicitation; short texts commenting on customs and local scene. This set of recordings has been signal processed to improve their intelligibility.
In a commercial for Midland Bank, words are animated to illustrate their definitions which aids the narrator’s pitch and highlights different parts of financial terminology.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include prewar Jewish life in Pervomaiscoe, family anecdotes, childhood memories, life during World War II, poetry translation, holiday celebrations, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, relations with non-Jews, life in the Soviet period, Jewish occupations, childhood games, evacuation during World War II, food customs, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, folk remedies, postwar Jewish life, prewar antisemitism, koshering meat, Purim celebrations, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Bălți, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni concentration camp, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Yiddish sayings. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include life during World War II, imprisonment in Transnistria ghettos, family anecdotes, postwar religious life, service in the Red Army, holiday traditions, religious education, childhood memories, food customs, family gatherings, Purim celebrations, wartime antisemitism, Jewish occupations, recipes, contemporary Jewish life, childhood games, Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, folk customs, proverbs, poetry recitation. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Călărași, Yiddish education, holiday traditions, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, life during World War II, evacuation to the Stalingrad region, cultural terminology, religious life during Soviet times, food customs, folk and healing customs, postwar religious life. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include contemporary Jewish life, life in the Obodivka ghetto, family anecdotes, life under Romanian occupation, life in the Dubyna forced labor camp, Yiddish songs, religious education, prewar Jewish life, Yiddish writers, childhood memories, life on a kolkhoz, prewar prayer customs, holiday traditions, food customs, cultural terminology, regional Yiddish dialects, Jewish weddings, memorialization, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Passover celebrations, recipes, folk customs, evacuation to Uzbekistan, prewar sports organizations, Yiddish press, prewar ethnic Jewish geography in Chișinău, childhood games, Hanukkah celebrations, prewar drinking customs, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni and Berlivka camps, postwar Klezmer music, Yiddish theater, Stalinist terror of the 1930s and 1940s, seeking advice from a rebbe, poetry recitation, service in the Red Army, Purim celebrations, Jewish funerals, observance of Yom Kippur, life in a Siberian gulag, Hershl Ostropoler stories, Jewish schools, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, relations with non-Jews, prewar organizations including Hashomer Hatzair and Poale Zion, Jewish cinema, Hasidic life in Moscow during the postwar Soviet period, differences between Polish and Russian Hasidism, folk customs, the Great Famine of 1932-33, evacuation to Rostov. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include family anecdotes, childhood memories, Jewish life in Libshen, education at a Romanian school, Passover celebrations, life during World War II, imprisonment in the Obodovka ghetto, relations with non-Jews, prewar political and cultural life in Rezina, Romanian, Russian, and Yiddish songs, prewar Yiddish culture and theater, life in the Bershad ghetto, cultural terminology and folktales, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include anecdotes from work as a teacher, family anecdotes, evacuation to Kazakhstan, life during World War II, childhood memories, prewar Jewish life in Kobylna, life after World War II, life today. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, family anecdotes, life in the Bershad ghetto, prewar Jewish life, childhood memories, holiday celebrations, prewar Hasidic life, food customs, Jewish occupations, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, Yiddish proverbs, military service, klezmer music. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Susleny, holiday celebrations, food customs, life in a communal apartment, relations with non-Jews, life on a kolkhoz, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, life during World War II, childhood memories, Yiddish songs, Purim shpiels, imprisonment in the Domanyovka concentration camp, religious life in post-Soviet Moldova, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include contemporary Jewish life, family anecdotes, childhood memories, education at a Russian school, life in the Ribnița ghetto, prewar Jewish life, holiday traditions, postwar religious life, the Ribnița rebbe, relations with non-Jews, childhood games, Romanian occupation during World War II, service in the Red Army, Yiddish theater, Jewish weddings, life on a Kolkhoz, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, the Great Famine of 1932-33, koshering meat, folk customs, local cemeteries, life in the Vastavka ghetto, Yiddish literature, occupational structures, recipes, cultural terminology. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories of prewar Vadu-Rashkovo, Soroca, and Sguritzy, family members, school education, prewar religious life, occupations, food customs, cultural life, political organizations, Yiddish songs, folk customs, traditional weddings, and holiday celebrations, including Yom Kippur, Succoth, Simkhat Torah, Hanukkah, Purim and Passover, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish in Dumbraveno; life during the Great Hunger in 1932-1933, family life during World War II, deaths of family members, German occupation, forced marches and labor in Bershad, Rîbnita, Bershadskiy Rayon, Rîscani, Yampil, Cosǎuyi, Rublenita, and Vertiujeni; life after the war, postwar German compensation and life today, reponses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs and footage of the Soroca synagogue. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories, memories of family members, Romanian Jewish school in prewar Stefănesti, Jewish life in prewar Talmaz and Tighina, history of the town of Tighina, including the period under Soviet occupation, occupational structure in Tighina, Jewish press before the war, prewar political, cultural and social life, including libraries and Yiddish theater, social interactions between Jews and non-Jews, prewar religious life, holiday celebrations, including Sukkoth, Hanukkah, Purim celebrations and snippets from Purim shpiels, Sabbath celebrations at home, including food customs, particularly gefilte fish, traditional weddings, folk customs, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, Zionist groups; life during the war, family evacuation, fighting in the Red Army, fighting near Stalingrad and the march toward Caucasus, military service as a nurse; life after the war, postwar religious life; answers to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Vicki Rubin, George Feil, Amy Feil, Maren Mansberger Feil, Ellen Feil, Daniel Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Leslie Feil, Kathryn Hellerstein, Betsy Feil, Susan Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, David Hellerstein, Beth Rubin, Edward G. Feil
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Joint birthday party for Harold Feil, Nellie Feil, and Herman Hellerstein. The family gathers in the yard, where Naomi brings out a cake. The children play in the yard while eating ice cream cones.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil
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Incomplete reel of a movie made in honor of Naomi Feil's 50th birthday. The first 1:36 has sound, before the film cuts to a silent black and white look at Naomi's life. Shows a biographical sketch of Naomi from Who’s Who of American Women (7th ed.), her baby book (written in German), and photos from her childhood.
Home movie documenting the Feil family's trip to New York City. Begins with footage of the family at the airport and boarding the plane. Eddie and Kenny get to visit the pilots in the cockpit. In the city, the film shows Times Square at night and numerous marquees for adult movie theaters. The family sees the Rockettes perform at Radio City, rides on the subway, and visits the Museum of Natural History, the Statue of Liberty, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a playground at Central Park.
Travelogue documenting Bailey's trips to New Zealand, Indonesia, and Cambodia, 1955-1956. Film begins with footage of people playing cricket in Auckland, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and people enjoying the beach. In Rotorua, Maori women in traditional dress play instruments and perform a dance. Shows the New Zealand Parliamentary Library and Riddiford Baths in Wellington. Captures diverse landscapes of New Zealand, including beaches, snowy mountains, and geothermal areas. Bailey's mother, Nellie Freeman, accompanies her in New Zealand. Footage of Asia primarily shows small village life and men, women, and children working in fields and doing housework. Bailey captures a large celebration complete with a float that has a Hindu temple spire. Ends with extensive footage of Angkor Wat with close-ups of the art and architectural features.
Depicted here are the seashores of the Canadian Province Newfoundland and Labrador. Highlights include city scenes of St. John's, mountain streams, crashing waves, images from an airplane, and flora and fauna. There is also a shot of the Empire State Building, which occurs just after the images from an airplane.
Depicted here are the seashores of the Canadian Province Newfoundland and Labrador. Highlights include crashing waves, an image capturing the twilight hour, and flora.
Depicted here are bucolic images of the Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador and also Greenland of Denmark. We see the beauty of late fall and spring as well as the harsh winter months on the easternmost seaboard of Canada and Greenland. Some highlights include icebergs melting, crashing waves, the United States Air Force Sondrestrom Air Base in Greenland, a seal, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, and wildflowers of the region.
Home movie taken on a trip from Niagara Falls to London, England. Offers a brief glimpse of a car driving near the falls before the film cuts to Naomi boarding an Air Canada flight. After landing, the Feils take a tour of Ottawa on a red double decker bus and film their surroundings through a rainy window. The film ends with a party where the women wear leis.
This collection primarily consists of religious oral traditions and interviews; also a trial, a masquerade, festivals, prayers, praise songs, divination sessions; several interviews with carvers, musicians, and a potter. Other musical items include funeral music, war-songs, bawdy songs, women's songs and folk dance music.
Home movie of the main street and businesses of Noble, Illinois, including the Noble Milling Company. Shows Bernadine Bailey peeks into a silo, oils wells, and men at work. A man opens a valve and oil pours out as the well pumps.
Paul Freeman Wilkinson's birthday party. Wilkinson is the nephew of Bernadine Bailey through her sister, Joy. A group of young boys sits around a table eating cake and blowing balloons before going outside to play in the yard. The film also features footage of Air Force and commercial planes taking off in an airfield.