[Project logo]

HADDON: An on-line catalogue of archival ethnographic film

The HADDON project - named after Alfred Cort Haddon, the early British anthropologist and pioneer in the use of film in anthropological research - was established in October 1994 to collect information on the early history of ethnographic cinema.

The prime objective of the project is to create HADDON: a computer database of ethnographic film footage shot between 1895 and 1945. This involves locating and identifying the relevant film footage and then taking advantage of new networked computing technology to create a database that can search and display textual and visual material simultaneously to remote users around the world. Help is needed with this! - see below.

For the early stages of the project both the date parameters and the definition of 'ethnographic film footage' are being interpreted generously. HADDON should be flexible enough to include details of any piece of early film footage in which anthropologists, non-European historians and others with a primary interest in non-industrial society might reasonably be assumed to be interested. HADDON is anticipated to come on-line by October 1996. Access will be through the World-Wide Web. A user anywhere in the world with access to the Internet and a graphical World-Wide Web browser such as Netscape will be able to search HADDON and retrieve both textual and visual information relating to relevant film footage and its location. Click for further information on:

 Back to the HADDON main menu 
 Back to the ISCA Home Page 

The HADDON project was generously funded from October 1994 to March 1995 by the University of Oxford. Funding for the final 18 months has come from the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No. R000235891).

marcus.banks@anthro.ox.ac.uk

This page last updated [29.3.96]