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AT the Royal Anthropological Institute, on November 18, Capt. M. W. Hilton-Simpson showed a cinematograph film of native life in the Algerian Hills. Last winter, when they commenced their sixth season of ethnological research among the Shawiya tribes of the Aures Hills in S.E. Algeria, Capt. and Mrs. M. W. Hilton-Simpson were accompanied by Mr. J. A. Haessler, who is beginning to compile a “library “of cinema films destined to illustrate the ethnography of primitive peoples. He secured a series of pictures among the Shawiya, from which Capt. Hilton-Simpson and he have prepared a film which shows how arts, crafts, and customs, when once they ha\e penetrated to the remote valleys of the Libyan hills, have persisted there unchanged until this day.
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The Cinematograph in Anthropology. Nature 114, 807 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114807a0
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