COLLECTION NAME:
Leroy H. Miller Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Leroy H. Miller collection
Title:
Algiers, Algeria
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
silent films
Genre:
travelog (performed works genre)
Genre:
Amateur films
Date Issued:
1929/1936
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 film reel (12 min., 45 sec.)
Form:
16mm (photographic film size)
Form:
black-and-white film (film, material)
Abstract:
Title from film container. Reel combines possibly original travel footage by Leroy H. Miller (ca. 1929) with descriptive intertitles, offering information and commentary from the perspective of an American traveler (ca. 1936). May also contain footage acquired by Miller from other sources. Travel footage includes harbor and roads around Algiers; a trolley car; buildings and mosques; people walking, washing, dancing and playing music, and shopping in markets. Intertitles give information and commentary from the perspective of the American traveler, including derogatory descriptions of women wearing veils and stereotypes about Muslim and Arab culture.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Note:
As original, historical material, some of the language used and opinions shared in these films - especially regarding topics of race, gender, class religion, and ability - do not reflect the current preferred terminology of individuals of marginalized identities, or the values and norms of the CU Boulder Archives.
Note:
00:00:04 The City of Algiers. 00:00:06 The ancient harbor of the Barbary pirates is dominated now by palaces of modern commerce --- 00:01:16 The French quarter, more modern than any city in France, save Paris, shows little of its past as the capital of a pirate empire. 00:01:42 The sons of the sea-roving Barbary corsairs of yesterday are the harbor boat-men of today --- 00:02:00 The aspect of the streets is surprisingly Parisian --- 00:02:39 A street scene and our first glimpse of Mohammedan woman. 00:03:59 A study of characters: All of us agreed that the women should have had all their faces covered! My, they are homely!! 00:04:57 Saturday night? 00:05:13 But the markets are still redolent of the Islam and the East --- 00:05:30 The Mosque of the Fishermen overlooks the busy center of "Infidel" activities --- 00:05:44 Above the sumptuous city of the Franks we see the whited dwellings of the Arab population --- 00:05:59 It is like going back a thousand years to cross the threshold of the Arab city --- 00:06:11 Veiled women-shrouded-faceless-formless-and inscrutable --- 00:06:24 These streets of the "Kasbah" are seldom on the level --- 00:06:34 No rumble of the wheeled traffic - nothing save the guttural grumble of Arabic contentions --- 00:06:59 Lost in the labyrinth of an Arabian yesterday --- 00:10:08 In the native market the atmosphere remains as we see people carrying on their business just as they have for centuries past. 00:12:45 End of recording.
Subject Topic:
City and town life
Subject Topic:
Pirates
Subject Topic:
Muslims
Subject Topic:
Women
Subject Topic:
Markets
Subject Topic:
Mosques
Subject Geographic:
Algeria--Algiers--Kasbah
Subject Geographic:
Algeria--Algiers
Identifier:
U183075096246_narv_millerLeroy_5-2_algiersAlgeria_a.mp4
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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