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.