Continental page to document. This is the English test version of the Africa page, created to check the multilingual façade.
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Ressources liees au territoire Afrique
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Enkipaata, Eunoto, Olng'esherr: the three Maasai male rites of passage (Kenya, UNESCO film)
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Enkipaata, Eunoto and Olng'esherr are the three interrelated rites of passage that turn a Maasai boy into a moran (warrior), then a young elder, then a senior elder. The UNESCO film (2018) follows the ochre-painted novices, the Enkipaata dance, the manyatta built by the women, the shaving of the warriors' braids by their mothers at Eunoto and the meat-sharing of Olng'esherr, with elders, youth leaders and women explaining how knowledge passes between age sets (UNESCO Urgent Safeguarding List, file 01390).
- Territory
- Africa / Comté de Kajiado et sud du Kenya (terres maasaï)
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Maasaï
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- UNESCO / Department of Culture, Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage (Kenya)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais et maa, sous-titres anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOnB24xI7cM
- Date added
- 02/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO (badge vérifié). Films produits pour les candidatures au patrimoine culturel immatériel ; celui-ci accompagne l'inscription 2018 des trois rites de passage masculins maasaï sur la Liste de sauvegarde urgente (dossier 01390, Kenya).
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Kwagh-hir: the puppet and masquerade theatre of the Tiv people (Nigeria, UNESCO film)
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Kwagh-hir is the great night theatre of the Tiv people of Benue State, Nigeria. Born from family storytelling sessions, it combines large puppets, masquerades, poetry, music and dance on the village square, commenting on community life from contemporary satire to moral and health lessons. Skills are transmitted through apprenticeship within the troupes, which compete in festivals. Inscribed in 2019 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- Territory
- Africa / Pays tiv, État de Benue (Makurdi), centre-est du Nigeria
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Tiv
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation (Nigeria), images 2008-2011 — diffusé par la chaîne officielle UNESCO
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire), tiv (chants et scènes)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQlFzjlZ4I
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
UNESCO — chaîne YouTube officielle (badge vérifié) de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture. Film de la candidature du kwagh-hir préparé avec le ministère fédéral nigérian du Tourisme, de la Culture et de l'Orientation nationale (© 2008 et 2011 FMTC&NO), élément inscrit en 2019 sur la Liste représentative.
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The Argan Tree: Practices and Know-How of the Amazigh Women of the Arganeraie (UNESCO film)
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In the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of south-west Morocco, rural Amazigh women hold the full range of know-how linked to the argan tree, inscribed by UNESCO in 2014. The film documents the whole chain: harvesting the fruit, cracking the nuts on stone, sorting the kernels, roasting, grinding on a stone mill, kneading and extracting the oil, up to the women's cooperatives that live from it today. Passed on through imitation from childhood, these skills feed cooking, medicine and cosmetics, and the oil is given as a wedding gift.
- Territory
- Africa / Réserve de biosphère de l'Arganeraie, Sud-Ouest marocain (entre Agadir et Essaouira), secteur de Tamanar
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Communautés rurales amazighes (berbères) de l'Arganeraie
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Ministère de la Culture du Maroc (Direction du patrimoine culturel) — film du dossier de candidature UNESCO 2014
- Language and subtitles
- Arabe et tamazight, sous-titres français incrustés
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjlzRi2rnpQ
- Date added
- 01/10/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO, qui publie les films des dossiers de candidature au patrimoine culturel immatériel. Film produit par le Ministère de la Culture du Maroc (Direction du patrimoine culturel) pour la candidature de 2014.
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The Gada system: the ancestral democracy of the Oromo of Ethiopia (UNESCO film, 2016)
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Official UNESCO nomination film (2016) on Gada, the traditional governance system of the Oromo people of Ethiopia. Based on generational classes progressing through grades, Gada regulates political, social and religious life; it was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.
- Territory
- Africa / Région Oromia, Éthiopie
- Skill
- Governance
- Community
- Oromo
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- UNESCO (film de candidature, dossier RL/01164)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (voix off ; sous-titres automatiques anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oyqCdEQ8k
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
Chaîne YouTube officielle de l'UNESCO. Les films de candidature au patrimoine culturel immatériel sont produits avec les États parties et documentent la pratique telle que décrite dans le dossier officiel d'inscription.
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Antogo, the Sacred Fishing Rite of the Dogon (Bamba, Mali)
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At the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment, the sacred pond of Antogo near Bamba may not be touched all year. One day a year, at the elders' call, more than a thousand men from across Dogon country dive in together for a ritual fishing that lasts only minutes. The film follows the preparations — fish traps, the blacksmith's work, millet beer, ceremonial dress — then the rites, incantations and the sharing of the catch. (Source: AMP.)
- Territory
- Africa / Bamba, falaise de Bandiagara, cercle de Koro, région de Mopti, Mali
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Dogon
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Bernard Curtet et Gilles Ragris — AMP (Ampersand)
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7XjjY6Bk8
- Date added
- 30/09/2026
Original creator
« Antogo, la pêche sacrée », film de Bernard Curtet et Gilles Ragris, © AMP (Ampersand, distributeur français de documentaires), publié sur la chaîne YouTube du distributeur « World View – Peuples du monde » avec chapitrage officiel et sous-titres en 22 langues.
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Living heritage of Tanzania: Hadzabe hunters and Maasai warriors
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Photographer Christophe Ratier joins the Hadzabe, one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples, in the bushlands of northern Tanzania: bow hunting, honey gathering, wild tubers and campfires, up to the sacred rock of Dondobi. Further north, among the Kisongo Maasai at the foot of the sacred volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, a teenager prepares to become a Moran (warrior). The film shows how sacred places still structure daily life in both societies. (Source: official SLICE channel description.)
- Territory
- Africa / Nord de la Tanzanie — pays hadzabe (lac Eyasi) et pays masaï Kisongo (volcan Ol Doinyo Lengai)
- Skill
- Spirituality / cosmology
- Community
- Hadzabe ; Maasaï (clan Kisongo)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Série « Travelling Photographers » (Photographes voyageurs), épisode Tanzanie avec Christophe Ratier — diffusée par SLICE (Mediawan)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire et sous-titres incrustés ; paroles en hadzane et en maa)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hyJy4YUevk
- Date added
- 29/09/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne documentaire officielle du groupe Mediawan (1,29 M d'abonnés). Épisode de la série « Travelling Photographers », avec le photographe Christophe Ratier.
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Ashanti country (Ghana): cocoa, drums and the great durbar (colour film, 1940s)
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A 1940s colour documentary filmed in Ashanti country (Gold Coast, now Ghana), digitized from 16mm by A/V Geeks: village life and the great Kumasi market, the whole cocoa chain — harvesting pods, splitting, fermenting and drying the beans, weighing and payment, surf boats carrying the sacks to ships — and a great durbar of Ashanti chiefs under ceremonial umbrellas, with talking drums, dances and gold regalia.
- Territory
- Africa / Kumasi et région Ashanti, Ghana (ex-Gold Coast)
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Ashanti (Asante)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Production d'époque (années 1940, cartons à vérifier) ; copie 16 mm numérisée par A/V Geeks 16mm Films
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVijS-xVUFo
- Date added
- 25/09/2026
Original creator
A/V Geeks 16mm Films (Skip Elsheimer, Caroline du Nord) collecte, numérise et préserve des milliers de films 16 mm « orphelins », notamment éducatifs et documentaires. Film original : documentaire couleur des années 1940 sur le pays ashanti, production d'époque non créditée dans la description.
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The Salt Tuareg: the Azalai Caravan from Agadez to Bilma (1988 report)
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A 1988 French TV report (TF1, preserved by the INA) on the azalai salt caravan from Agadez to the Bilma oasis across the Ténéré desert: forty men and 300 camels led by Tuareg guides walk 15 to 20 days to load salt from the Bilma salt pans, bartered for staple goods — a thousand-year-old trade passed down through generations.
- Territory
- Africa / Désert du Ténéré, d’Agadez à l’oasis de Bilma, Niger
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Touaregs (caravaniers) et sauniers de l’oasis de Bilma
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- INA — émission « 52 sur la Une », TF1, 23/06/1988 (chaîne officielle Ina Voyages)
- Language and subtitles
- Français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bixsw74oTM
- Date added
- 23/09/2026
Original creator
INA, Institut national de l’audiovisuel : conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises. La chaîne « Ina Voyages » publie les reportages de voyage des fonds de l’INA.
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The Nuer: the cattle people of the Upper Nile (official excerpt, 1968-1970 footage)
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Official excerpt of "The Nuer" (1971), a classic of ethnographic cinema filmed in 1968-1970 by Hilary Harris and George Breidenbach with Robert Gardner for Harvard's Peabody Museum. Among the Nuer (Naath) of the Upper Nile, life revolves around cattle: herds moving through the marshes, cone-shaped byres, dung-smoke fires, songs addressed to oxen, gaar scarification. Almost wordless, the film works through direct images and sound.
- Territory
- Africa / Village de Ciengach, pays des Nuer Jikany de l'Est – Éthiopie occidentale (région de Gambela), près de l'actuel Soudan du Sud
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Nuer (Naath)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Hilary Harris et George Breidenbach, avec Robert Gardner – Film Study Center, Peabody Museum, Harvard (1971) ; distribution Documentary Educational Resources
- Language and subtitles
- sans commentaire (sons directs, chants nuer)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VBnrIkAtA
- Date added
- 20/09/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), distributeur à but non lucratif fondé en 1968, diffuse les grands films ethnographiques, dont ceux du Film Study Center du Peabody Museum (Harvard).
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Madagascar 1957: the great Zoma market and the rice harvest (INA archives)
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French television archive footage dated 10 October 1957 (INA collection, official Ina Voyages channel). Arrival in Tananarive, zebu carts on highland roads, the vast Friday Zoma market, and the rice harvest with zebus trampling the paddies — the heart of Merina agricultural life.
- Territory
- Africa / Antananarivo (Tananarive) et hautes terres centrales, Madagascar
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Merina
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- INA — Institut national de l'audiovisuel (émission du 10 octobre 1957)
- Language and subtitles
- Français (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_Q-8xiojQ
- Date added
- 17/09/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio et de la télévision françaises. La chaîne YouTube « Ina Voyages » publie ses reportages de voyage d'époque.
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Ethiopia 1942: from Harar to Addis Ababa — harvests, markets and horsemen (Burton Holmes archives)
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Burton Holmes archival film shot in Ethiopia in the early 1940s: Harar countryside, grain threshing and winnowing, Addis Ababa markets and craftsmen, then Haile Selassie’s forces and equestrian re-enactments. A rare document of rural and urban Ethiopia just after the Italian occupation.
- Territory
- Africa / Province du Harar et Addis-Abeba, Éthiopie
- Skill
- Agriculture
- Community
- Peuples d’Éthiopie (Amhara, Oromo, Harari)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Burton Holmes Films (début des années 1940), fonds Travel Film Archive
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet, cartons en anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjpXlR1V7uM
- Date added
- 15/09/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive : fonds américain de films de voyage et d’éducation tournés entre 1900 et 1970, dont les collections du conférencier-voyageur Burton Holmes, diffusé sur YouTube par la chaîne officielle travelfilmarchive.
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Azalai: with the Tuareg salt caravan, from the Aïr to Agadez
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A New Atlantis documentary on the azalai, the Tuareg salt caravan between the Aïr mountains and Agadez (Niger), just after the peace agreement: two children from once-opposed families join their elders for the first time, learning the market, the salt loaves, camel handling, night camps and desert wayfinding.
- Territory
- Africa / Massif de l’Aïr, Ténéré et Agadez, Niger
- Skill
- Education / transmission
- Community
- Touaregs
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- New Atlantis (réal. Domingo Solano)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBleoonCtOg
- Date added
- 13/09/2026
Original creator
New Atlantis : société de production documentaire espagnole (Madrid), connue pour ses séries sur les peuples et les cultures du monde ; chaîne YouTube officielle « New Atlantis Full Documentaries ».
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Wodaabe, war by dancing: the geerewol, great ceremony of Niger's nomadic Fulani
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Every year in the Sahel of Niger, thousands of nomadic Wodaabe Fulani gather for the geerewol: for seven days, two rival lineages confront each other with song and dance as their only weapons, before parting in peace. Ethnomusicologist Sandrine Loncke's documentary (Paris 8 University/CNRS, Point du Jour) follows the preparations — yellow then red make-up, cowrie ornaments —, the yaake dances, the elders' councils, night songs around fires and the striking of camp. In French.
- Territory
- Africa / Azawagh, région de Tchintabaraden, Sahel, Niger
- Skill
- Arts / cultural expressions
- Community
- Peuls wodaabe (Bororos)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- Plus de 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Sandrine Loncke (réalisation) / Point du Jour (production) / SLICE Peuples (diffusion)
- Language and subtitles
- Français (paroles en fulfulde sous-titrées)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIkR5mAo2E
- Date added
- 06/09/2026
Original creator
Sandrine Loncke est ethnomusicologue (Université Paris 8 / CNRS), spécialiste des musiques peules du Sahel. Son documentaire sur la geerewol des Wodaabe, produit par Point du Jour et primé au festival Jean Rouch, est diffusé par SLICE Peuples, chaîne YouTube officielle de distribution documentaire.
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Zanzibar 1961: dhows, cloves and carved doors of the spice island (British Pathé archive)
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British Pathé newsreel shot in Zanzibar in 1961: dhows returning laden with spices, clove picking and the market, hammered silverwork, the carving of Stone Town’s famous doors, the Sultan’s palace and Mangapwani beach.
- Territory
- Africa / Zanzibar (Stone Town), Tanzanie
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Swahilis de Zanzibar
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (actualités cinématographiques, 1961)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJoNDr9ziM
- Date added
- 04/09/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, société d’actualités cinématographiques britannique (1896-1976) ; son fonds de 85 000 films, considéré comme l’une des plus importantes archives d’actualités au monde, est publié intégralement sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Kano, earthen city of the Hausa: caravans, walls and mud-plastering (archive footage, 1949)
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Silent 1949 British Pathé rushes from the old city of Kano, Nigeria: camel caravans entering the earthen walls, masons hand-plastering mud façades, market streets, groundnut pyramids and the Emir's court. A rare record of Sahelian earthen architecture.
- Territory
- Africa / Kano, nord du Nigéria (vieille ville)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Haoussa
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (sans commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zok1NjNBU
- Date added
- 01/09/2026
Original creator
Maison d'archives d'actualités cinématographiques britanniques (1896-1976). British Pathé publie ses fonds numérisés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Kabylia 1959: villages, market and everyday gestures (INA archives)
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A 1959 French TV report (RTF, INA archives) on Kabylia and its hilltop villages around Tizi Ouzou: open-air market, goat herding, women fetching water, building a house in the traditional way, the village lookout, schoolgirls’ games and traditional dance. A period document, with a commentary that reflects its colonial time.
- Territory
- Africa / Tizi Ouzou et villages de Grande Kabylie, Algérie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Kabyles (Berbères / Amazighs)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- RTF, « Voyage sans passeport » (1959) — fonds INA
- Language and subtitles
- Français (commentaire d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjPRPcHkxg
- Date added
- 31/08/2026
Original creator
Ina Voyages est une chaîne officielle de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), qui conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio-télévision française. Ce reportage provient de l’émission « Voyage sans passeport » diffusée le 22 août 1959.
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The Mbuti of the Ituri forest: hunting, gathering and barter (1939 educational film)
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A 1939 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films production made with H.C. Raven (American Museum of Natural History) on the Mbuti people of the Ituri rainforest, Congo. Dome-shaped leaf shelters, poison arrows, pit traps, wild honey gathering, bark-cloth making, and the barter of ivory for iron and plantains with neighbouring villagers. Dated narration, but a precious record of skills and gestures.
- Territory
- Africa / Forêt de l'Ituri, République démocratique du Congo
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Mbuti (Bambuti)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films avec H.C. Raven (American Museum of Natural History), 1939 — numérisation Periscope Film
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NbFY1JdkQ
- Date added
- 28/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film est un fonds d'archives filmiques (Los Angeles) qui numérise et préserve des films historiques, industriels et éducatifs du XXe siècle. Le film original a été produit en 1939 par Encyclopaedia Britannica Films avec H.C. Raven de l'American Museum of Natural History.
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The Hunting Equipment of the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari (footage from 1951-1953)
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Filmed between 1951 and 1953 by ethnographic film pioneer John Marshall, this footage shows in detail every piece of the Ju/'hoan hunting kit and how each is made and used, from gathering raw materials to preparing poison arrows. An official excerpt from the Marshall collection, one of the largest film records ever devoted to an indigenous people.
- Territory
- Africa / Région de Nyae Nyae (Tsumkwe), désert du Kalahari, Namibie
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Ju/'hoansi (San, autrefois appelés « !Kung »)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- John Marshall (tournage 1951-1953), montage Frank Galvin, dir. Lorna Marshall — fonds Documentary Educational Resources
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire ; à confirmer au visionnage) ; pas de sous-titres français
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQJRw-LvxU8
- Date added
- 24/08/2026
Original creator
Documentary Educational Resources (DER), fondée en 1968 avec John Marshall, est le distributeur historique du cinéma ethnographique (films Marshall, Gardner, Asch). Organisation à but non lucratif, elle diffuse des extraits officiels sur sa chaîne YouTube (41 700 abonnés).
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Desert Nomads of Southern Morocco: Camps, Caravan and Couscous (archive film, 1949)
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This 1949 documentary, photographed by Richard Leacock, follows a family of pastoral nomads on the Saharan fringes of southern Morocco: milking camels, fetching water, grinding barley, making couscous and stone-baked bread, striking the camel-hair tents and moving the caravan. It also shows Koranic schooling in the tent, an oasis stop, irrigation timed by a water clock, and the date harvest.
- Territory
- Africa / Sud marocain, marges sahariennes près de l’Atlas, Maroc
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Tribus nomades pastorales du Sud marocain
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Louis de Rochemont Associates (1949), réal. John Ferno, image Richard Leacock — fonds Periscope Film (film n° 61664)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzsat-ft1A
- Date added
- 23/08/2026
Original creator
Periscope Film restaure et diffuse gratuitement des films d’archives depuis plus de dix ans (chaîne officielle, fonds déjà utilisé sur le site). Film original : Louis de Rochemont Associates, réalisé par John Ferno et filmé par Richard Leacock, futur pionnier du cinéma direct.
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The Maasai and the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano: water for the herds (archive, 1967)
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Archive news report filmed in 1967 around the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano — the Maasai « Mountain of God » — after an eruption. Aerial views of the volcano and the northern Tanzanian plains, Maasai herders with their sheep and cattle, grazing lands destroyed by the eruption. Cattle drink from water drums carried by donkey from a source over 150 km away.
- Territory
- Africa / Ol Doinyo Lengaï, nord de la Tanzanie
- Skill
- Water
- Community
- Maasaï
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (reportage d’actualités, FILM ID 3192.08, 1967)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet / son non vérifié (négatif original Pathé) — à confirmer au visionnage
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-u8SHt-p4s
- Date added
- 18/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, l’une des plus anciennes maisons d’actualités filmées (1896-1976), a mis en ligne ses 85 000 films sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle. Fonds de référence pour les images d’archives du XXe siècle.
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The Wagenia Fishermen of the Congo River (Smithsonian archives, ca. 1975)
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This short archival clip (ca. 1975), preserved by the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives, shows Wagenia fishing on the Congo River near Kisangani: huge wooden scaffolds anchored in the rocks of the rapids, with large conical baskets that trap fish in the current. This collective fishery, described by travellers as early as the 19th century, is passed down through generations within the clans. From “Congo River Adventure,” made for the travelogue series “Three Passports to Adventure” (the Linker family). (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Chutes Wagenia (chutes Boyoma), fleuve Congo, près de Kisangani, République démocratique du Congo
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Wagenia (Wagenya / Bagenia), pêcheurs du fleuve Congo
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Extrait de « Congo River Adventure » (vers 1975), tourné pour la série télévisée de voyage « Three Passports to Adventure » de Hal, Halla et David Linker ; conservé et diffusé par les Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution), chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire d'époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM5c5NeFwOk
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA), rattachées au Musée national d'histoire naturelle du Smithsonian, conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de pellicule documentant les cultures du monde ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits de ces fonds historiques.
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The Bandiagara Escarpment: Dogon Dwellings from the Sky (INA collection, 2007)
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These images from the INA collection (aerial rushes shot on 1 November 2007 for the film “Home”) fly over the Bandiagara Escarpment in Dogon country (Mali), a UNESCO World Heritage site. The cliff is dotted with caves where the Tellem, the Dogon's predecessors, built granaries, tombs and places of worship; today the Dogon use these structures as burial sites and build their villages, houses and millet granaries at the foot of the cliff. An exceptional document on a unique vertical habitat. (Source: INA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Falaise de Bandiagara, pays dogon, région de Mopti, Mali (plaine du Séno-Gondo)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Dogon (et Tellem, leurs prédécesseurs dans les grottes de la falaise)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Rushes du film « Home » (2007) conservés et diffusés par l'INA — chaîne YouTube officielle Ina Voyages
- Language and subtitles
- Rushes sans commentaire (images aériennes)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5mc2MdcYEg
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et valorise les archives audiovisuelles françaises ; sa chaîne officielle Ina Voyages diffuse des documents et rushes de voyage issus de ses fonds.
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The Herero of Ngamiland: Cattle, Milk and Clan Life (Smithsonian archives, 1953)
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This excerpt from an ethnographic film shot in 1953 by anthropologist Gordon D. Gibson shows the daily life of the Herero (Ovaherero) of Ngamiland, Botswana: house building, herding, watering and milking cattle, making butter and buttermilk, wood carving, butchering and pounding flour. It also documents the role of clan priests, including the daily milk-tasting ritual, homage to ancestors, funerals, children's games, adornments, and songs and dances. (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Ngamiland (région du Nord-Ouest, autour de Maun et du delta de l'Okavango), Botswana (repère indicatif : Maun)
- Skill
- Food
- Community
- Herero (Ovaherero), peuple bantou pasteur
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film ethnographique de l'anthropologue Gordon D. Gibson (Smithsonian), 1953 ; extrait diffusé par les Human Studies Film Archives — chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (film monté et commenté)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckEnRndmXM
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de films ethnographiques ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits documentés des collections.
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Tuareg of the Sahara: rites of passage, wedding and salt caravan (archive footage, 1948)
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This 1948 archive film shows scenes of Tuareg life in the Sahara: a young man's passage to adulthood, wedding festivities, and a camel caravan carrying salt across the desert. The salt caravan illustrates the Tuareg caravan economy, a trading system that linked the oases with Sahelian markets. A rare filmed document of the Tuareg nomadic way of life in the mid-20th century, distributed by The Travel Film Archive. The perspective is that of a period travel film, to be viewed in its colonial context.
- Territory
- Africa / Afrique / Sahara central (repère indicatif : région de Tamanrasset, Algérie ; lieu exact non précisé)
- Skill
- Economy / commons
- Community
- Touaregs (Kel Tamasheq)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Film de voyage de 1948, diffusé par The Travel Film Archive (chaîne YouTube officielle travelfilmarchive)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire de film de voyage d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbYYk56uQo
- Date added
- 02/08/2026
Original creator
The Travel Film Archive est un fonds d’archives regroupant des films de voyage et d’ethnographie tournés entre 1900 et les années 1970, numérisés et diffusés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.