https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/724c92c7-33a7-4bfa-8899-8907a145c3bd Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Here is a home movie and two short, silent, tinted films produced by Cine Art Productions in 1927: “The Grand Canyon #3 & #4”. Cine Art, which operated for just six short years, was predominantly known for making short silent titillating “nudie cuties”, but their catalog also included non-fiction travelogues. These films cover the Hopi Native American tribe and present scenes of the Grand Canyon. The first portion includes images of the Hopi within home dwellings and making native baskets as well as sweeping shots of the Grand Canyon covering Mohave and Hopi Point. The second portion (03:40) features Zoroaster Temple, a 7,123-foot-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon. The reel concludes (7:12) with a home movie shot by a tourist, showing the Hopi performing a ritualistic dance for white onlookers. The Hopi are a long surviving tribe residing predominately in Arizona. The Grand Canyon is culturally significant among members considered to be a place of emergence. Hopi have a strong spiritual connection to the land, with rich traditions are rooted in corn and in the belief it is of man’s highest duty to tend to the land. They are a Puebloan group recognized for unique agricultural practices especially dry farming in such a challenging, arid environment. 00:00 Main titles. Views from Mohave Point peer northward across the canyon (:18). Mohave Point is a sightseer’s hotspot. The Colorado River, Salt Creek, Granite and Hermit Rapids can be seen below. A Hopi stands to the far right in feathered headdress (:31). He climbs the rock face (:35). Two Natives stand across a westernized man over gaps in the canyon (:44). Another Hopi follows, aged 112 in full western gear contrasting the traditional attire of the former Natives (1:09). Title cards indicate he was decorated by a King of Belgium, likely King Albert I. Albert reigned from 1909 to 1934. Historically, royal rulers awarded Native tribesmen medals and status in order to sway the purchase of land and material. Female members (1:16) weave baskets. Basket making is one of the oldest inventions of Native American culture used for functionality as well as expression of art and tribal identity. Baskets were woven with plant materials in colors of red, yellow and black. Two women stand in a pueblo dwelling doorway (1:20) with thick blankets over the shoulder (1:20). Another palms food (1:23) for a large indoor gathering (1:27). Panoramic shots cover Hopi Point (1:40) along Hermit Road offering five views of the Colorado River. Title cards highlight lighting and shadows from another viewpoint likely traveling down Hermit Rim Road (2:07). Hermit Rim would become Hermit Road around 1934. Evening in the canyon follows (2:55) Grand Canyon #3 title card (3:42) beginning with pueblo dwellings (3:47) nestled within the canyon. A Hopi native carts sticks up stone steps (4:00). Another tends to sheep (4:03). Views from the south rim (4:22) show Zoroaster temple; a summit in Arizona near Yavapai Point Overlook on the north rim. The temple was named for Zoroazter; the ancient Iranian prophet. Shots pass over the rim into the Colorado River (5:16). Cheops Pyramid (6:04); a butte four miles north of the Grand Canyon Village, Confucius Temple (6:09) and nearby waterfalls (6:17-6:44) follow. At (7:12) home movie footage shot by an unknown tourist. A ritualistic dance begins as Hopi emerge feathered from a stone home as onlookers in cloche hats and long jackets lean against the wall (7:13). In the 1920’s, Hopi members began to show portions of sacred ceremonies for white audiences in an effort to prove the dances were harmless as government efforts sought to repress such practices considered immoral by some western cultures. The film concludes residential homes (10:20) and The Hopi House built in 1904 designed by Mary Colter (10:39). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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