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Guide to the Estela and Ernesto Bravo Film and Video Collection TAM.616

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Collection processed by Jan Hilley, with the assistance of Heather Mulliner.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on July 27, 2022
Finding aid written in English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

 Edited by Heather Mulliner to include item-level description of 225 videos Edited by Amy C. Vo to include item-level description of 42 videos Edited by Jasmine Sykes-Kunk and Amy C. Vo to include item-level description of 32 videos Edited by Rachel Mahre to reflect digitization of videos Edited by Weatherly Stephan to reflect deaccession of moldy, digitized videos Updated by Anna Björnsson McCormick to record digitization, decontamination, isolation, and deaccession of videos treated by a vendor.  , December 2018 , May 2020 , October 2020 , February 2021 , June 2021 , July 2022

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Series XV: Mandela Visits Jamaica, 1991

Scope and Content Note

This series contains full-length versions and raw footage from the documentary Mandela Visits Jamaica, which chronicles Nelson Mandela's visit to Jamaica during his 1991 tour of the Caribbean and Latin America. Footage in this series includes scenes of crowds waiting to meet Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Mandela at speaking events, scenes from the Jamaican Parliament, and background footage.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 83 DVD : ref677 Mandela in Jamaica

Scope and Content Note

This is a full-length version of the film Mandela in Jamaica. This recording contains additional footage after the credits.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:20:00.

 1991
Box: Electronic Records E-records : TW_TAM_616_ER_9 Mandela Visits Jamaica

Mandela Visits Jamaica: 1991-   https://aeon.library.nyu.edu/Logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/ead/tamwag/tam_616.xml&view=xml

 1991
Box: 82 DVD : ref631 Mandela Visits Jamaica /  Mandela in Cuba

Scope and Content Note

This full-length version of Mandela Visits Jamaica appears to have been taped over a copy of  Mandela in Cuba (which is longer but ends abruptly during a Fidel Castro speech).

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 01:11:00.

 1991
Box: 82 DVD : ref623 Footage of Mandela in Jamaica

Scope and Content Note

This tape contains footage of people lining up for Nelson and Winnie Mandela's appearance at a speaking event at the University of the West Indies. It then cuts to footage of the Jamaican Parliament welcoming Mandela who addressed its members.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Original Format: Umatic. Duration: 00:51:05.

 1991
Box: 77 DVD : ref138 Footage of Mandela in Jamaica ("Assemblia Popular")

Scope and Content Note

The first ten minutes consists of scenes in a large chamber with no sound; Fidel enters and is seated. After a few minutes of test pattern, there is sound and a picture of the Mandelas (and Jorge Risquet) at airport boarding a plane (en route to Jamaica per Estela Bravo). There is sound and people speaking with each other but the sound of the plane engine drowns out the conversations. There are many close-ups of the various people in Mandela's entourage. Finally, the last few minutes return to a chamber filled with people but no sound.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Original Format: Betacam. Duration: 00:18:23.

 1991

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