Video Collections  
Not all videos listed below are listed in either the Tripod or Franklin on-line systems. Please call individual libraries to inquire about specific video locations. To access videos at the University of Pennsylvania through Franklin, type co=music video recordings. This will call up all videos available at the Ormandy Listening Center on the 4th floor of Van Pelt Library. Other videos are housed in other libraries and in various department offices, including those listed in this section. 

 


Bryn Mawr:  
 

Canaday Library  
 

Africa (Basil Davidson) 
The Africans 
Afrique, je te plumerai 
AIDS in Africa 
Asante Market Women 
Baabu Banza 
Becoming a Woman in Okrika 
Black Athena 
Finzan 
The Lost City of Zimbabwe 
Lumumba, la mort du prophete 
Maids and Madams 
Neria 
La vie est belle 
Warrior Marks 
Yeelen 
Zan Boko 
Zulei 

 


Haverford College Libraries: 
 


Magill Library 
 

The Africans 
Algeria 1954 
The Battle of Algiers 
Black and White in Color 
Glimpses of West Africa 
Hyenes 
Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Bagisu of Uganda 
In a Time of Violence 
Keita! 
Kumekucha (From Sunup): Women of Tanzania 
Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria 
Mapantsula 
Monday's Girls 
The Priest and the Nganga: The Traditional Medicine of Douala 
Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi 
Quartier Mozart 
Spirits of Defiance 
Sur les Traces du Renard Pale 
Three Tales from Senegal 
To Be a Woman in Burkina Faso 
Tunisia and Morocco 
Weapons for the Ancestors 
Yaaba Soore: The Path of the Ancestors 
Yoruba Ritual 

Union 

 

 

African Drumming 
Atumpan, the Talking Drums of Ghana 

 


Swarthmore:  
 


McCabe Library  
 

The Africans: A Triple Heritage 
Afrique, je te plumerai 
Ancient Lives 
Bahia: Africa in the Americas 
Banquza Timbila 
Battle of Algiers 
Dagbamba Praise Name Dances: Stories and Drummed Language 
Dance Like a River 
Egypt, Quest for Eternity 
The Falashas 
Family Across the Sea 
Finzan 
Herdsmen of the Sun 
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid 
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, vols. 17, 18, 19 
Kemoko Sano Teaches African Dance: From the Republic of Guinea 
The Long Search, vol. 10: African Religions 
Lumumba, le mort du prophete 
Mapantsula 
Out of Africa 
Sango Malo 
Touki-Bouki 
Yeelen 

Underill Library 
 

Chuck Davis: Dancing Through West Africa 
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, vols. 17, 18, 19 

 


University of Pennsylvania: 
 

Ormandy Listening Center, Van Pelt 

 

The 1973 Mgodo wa Mbanguzi 
Allah tantou 
Bahia, Africa in the Americas 
The Black Music of Brazil 
Curing Ceremony 
Dagbamba Praise Name Dances 
Finzan 
Jali Nyama Suso: Kora Player of the Gambia 
The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, vols. 17, 18, 19 
Konkombe: Nigerian Music 
Legacy of the Spirits 
Lumumba, la mort du prophete 
Mbira Music: the Spirit of the People 
Music of the Mande 
Quartier Mozart 
Repercussions: A Celebration of African-American Music 
Rhythm of Resistance: the Black Music of South Africa 
Rhythms of the World 
Songs of the Adventurers 
La vie est belle 
Yoruba Ritual 

Department of Folklore 

 

 
(Contact Persons: Stephanie Wardwell and Lars Jenner) 
The Folklore Department has two audio-visual cassettes of African events held at Penn: Xhosa oral poetry and Alhaji Ba Kente's Kora playing, as well as a thirty minute tape of a Senegalese griot and an Ethiopian story-teller put out by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters in Washington, D.C. 

Department of History  
 

(Contact Person: Lee Cassanelli) 
Afrique, je te plumerai 
Allah tantou 
The Ashanti Kingdom 
Battle of Algiers 
Black Sugar 
Finzan 
Zan Boko 

Middle East Center 
 
(Contact Person: Mary Martin) 
Al-Andalus 
Al Aragouze 
Alexandria...Why? 
Between Two Worlds 
Cairo: The City Victorious 
Dreams of Hind and Camelia 
Egyptian Peaks 
Egyptian Village: Guezeret Eldahab 
Hyenas Under the Sun 
Letter from Morocco 
Merchant of Art 
Orient/Occident 
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey 
Qahir al-Zalam 
Quranic School in a Changing World 
Studying Literacy in Morocco 
Ways of Faith 

 Films: 
Folk Music of Libya 
Price of Change 
Saints and Spirits 
Veiled Revolution 

School of Arts and Sciences Audiovisual and Media Center 

 

 

(Contact Person: Luke Sullivan) 
The SAS audiovisual center has audiovisual tapes of all performances taking place on the Penn campus. It also has Swahili and Amharic language tapes and Kenyan news programming. 
Ancient African Music 
Benin Kingship 
Coup de Torcheron 


University Museum  
 

Film Archives 
(Contact Persons: Charles or Jean Kline) 
The film archives contain negatives and films. The negatives are catalogued by number which can be obtained by consulting the catalogue in the main archives. The catalogue is organized by nation-state with subheadings indicating the material and function of the objects depicted. The Kintner Film Collection contains fifty-seven reels of 16mm film depicting "natural" scenes and artisanal activities. Each film is approximately ten minutes in duration. The films are in color but without sound. There are three reels on Zanzibar (1952), seven reels on East African game parks and the Maasai (1952), eight reels on Niger (1967), three reels on Chad (1967) and thirty-six reels on Ethiopia (1969). There are an additional sixteen movies which the Museum owns and the Basil Davidson BBC series. These films date from 1916 to 1970. The films are catalogued and accessible to researchers.