Solar Cookers - Something New Under The Sun
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An applied anthropology study of the social use of solar energy in rural regions. Engineers and anthropologists collaborate to adapt advanced technology to the needs of people of underdeveloped areas where conventioanl sources of energy are prohibitively expensive or unavailable. Work and home life in a Mexican village reveal social and economic factors that affect the use of solar cookers.
Credits
- Direction, Script
- Prof. James Silverberg, Dept. of Anthropology, U. W.—Milwaukee, Prof. Hal Serrie, Dept. of Anthropology, Beloit College
- Photography
- Gil Olmos, Neil MacLellan, Juan Zamora, Gathel Weston
- Editing
- Mira Binford
- Sound
- David LeRoy
- Narrator
- James Silverberg, Farrington Daniels; filmed in Mexico through the cooperation of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas.
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Sources
- A-V Online (National Information Center for Educational Media). CD-ROM database of educational and documentary media, compiled and maintained by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). — title, creator, length, format, sound, description
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — catalog record
- Representative University Produced Films 1964-1967 (Journal of the University Film Producers Association, Vol.19 No.3/4, 1967) — title, year, creator, length, color, description, credits
- 16mm Filmography editors — creator
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