Food Clothing And Shelter In Three Environments Footage

Food, Clothing and Shelter in Three Environments
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	Catalog #:	491180
	Clip Number:	491180-1
	Orginal Film:	WPA 1717
	Timecode:
	Location:	Various
	Year Shot:	1969 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	DOMESTIC LIFE: Unusual
	Description:	ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 211043 M Find out how three distinct cultures find and improvise the basic necessities of life according to their surroundings in three distinct environments (snowy Northern Japan, tropical New Zealand and arid Pakistan). Some great, unique material here. Panning EST shot of Hong Kong (harbor area). EST shot of a downtown area in Nairobi. EST shot of Caracas in South America (Venezuela). MS of people walking on a sidewalk in a downtown area. Tight LS of three mannered kids shopping in a market. MS's of Hong Kong kids playing on a spinning version of playground monkey bars. MS of two Pakistani farmers plowing extremely dry farmland with the help of four white oxen. MS of a Japanese man wearing a winter coat made of straw, walking along a snowy path. MS of an African woman tending to a garden outside a thatched hut. MS and CU of a Pakistani woman kneeling in her roofless clay home, preparing a meal. MS of a chubby, older Samoan man in tropical garb, walking with a spear in hand.......... EST shot of a village in North Japan, blanketed in snow. EST shot of waves crashing on a gorgeous Pacific Island beach. EST shot of an empty open-air marketplace in Pakistan.......... Clothing section: MS's of a Japanese man wearing a straw cape, boots and snowshoes, walking through the snow and to his village home; once there he takes off his clothes and settles in, a nosy young calf greeting him. MS's of Samoan (New Zealand) natives making lightweight clothes; both male and female natives sew. MS's of several Pakistani women gathering like a sewing bee, making clothes; CU's of their faces and hands as well.......... Shelter section: panning tight LS of a sturdy looking wood cabin in snowy N. Japan (excellent scenery), followed by INT shots of the cabin as the family settles down for lunch. EST shots of the Samoan village and its buildings which are made of wood, palm trees and coconut fibers; CU's of designing, then cut to a MS of the large Samoan elder pulling down the retractable fiber walls of his home (like blinds, but walls). EST shots of a Pakistani desert village and its clay mud buildings; MS of a boy repairing a wall with mud.......... Food section: EST shot of snowy mountains in N. Japan; cut to INT cabin, to CU's of crops drying on a line, tilt D to MS of a woman preparing a meal; CU of her cutting a root vegetable; CU's of turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, and onions; MS of woman taking a salted (preserved) fish from a hangar; CU of her taking fermented (pickled) beans from a crude storage container of dried grass; MS's of her taking the aforementioned food into the adjacent room where the family will cook it; CU's of the family cooking and eating rice, tofu, and veggies..... MS of a Samoan man climbing a coconut tree, taking one down. CU's of him dehusking a coconut on a sharp stick. CU's of him opening an unripened one (full of water) and then a ripened one (full of meat). CU of a ripe coconut being shaved of its meat. MS's of a man tending to a watery garden of karo roots. CU of a karo root being shaved. CU of a green banana being cut open. MS of a duck drinking water from a coconut while a rooster watches on. Cut to a CU of a cleaned whole chicken being rolled in a banana leaf. MS's of lava stones being removed from a roasting pit; CU's of roasted bananas and bundles of chicken, fish, and sweet potatoes being removed from the pit. CU's of Samoans eating..... MS of two white oxen plowing a dry field in Pakistan. MS of an irrigation canal in a garden. MS of a boy with a hoe, working on the canal. MS's of peculiar-looking desert animals (seemingly part cow and part goat) grazing in a field. MS of a woman cutting meat and vegetables in a sunny, roofless kitchen of her mud home. MS of her grilling eggplant on a stone grill; she then makes a whole wheat flour flat bread, frying it on the stone grill. MS of the woman bringing food out to her four kids.......... wide MS of several Pakistani women walking on a path while carrying water jugs on their heads. MS of a Samoan man shaving a coconut. MS of the Japanese wife placing vegetables in a suspended wok.