50 Years After Through Navajo Eyes (1966)
1966 · Short film · 21 min
Synopsis
The film assembled here was filmed and edited as a silent film by Richard Chalfen in 1966 based on his summer visit to Pine Springs AZ, in the Navajo Nation. The film without any sound track remained in Chalfen’s possession, until approached in 2016 by the Penn Museum’s film and media archivist, who proposed that together they could record a narration as written by Dr. Chalfen describing briefly the project of Navajo Film Themselves also known as Through Navajo Eyes, as devised by Sol Worth and Dr. John Adair. The narration goes on to describe the scenes that Chalfen, a film and anthropology graduate student at Annenberg/Upenn at the time, was able to film while onsite. The seven films of the original series may be seen via their only published and distributed version as a DVD which is currently available via the gift shop of the Penn Museum. All profits for the DVD since it has been published and into the foreseeable future go to the families of the original filmmakers. Anyone may stream this film for classroom and other public screenings as it appears here. *We wish to thank the National Film Preservation Foundation for funding restoration of this film*.
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Details
- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Language
- English
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Diné
- Navajo people
- Navajo Nation
- Filmmaking
- Filmmakers
- Amateur filmmakers
- Fieldwork
- Arizona
- Pine Springs
- Cross-cultural projects
