Svanetia 1929 [Motion Picture Film]

• Main Author: Field, William O. (William Osgood), 1904-1994;
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Mountains; Glaciers; Rivers; Landscape photographs; Wooden buildings; Farmers; Forts & fortifications; Svanetia (Georgia); Svanetians; Fairbanks; Kavkaz; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/georgia/id/1258

Reel 6 of William O. Field film shows Svaneti region in the Greater Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. Shkhara mountain, Inguri River, Ushguli mountain, and Tetnuldi mountain are shown in the film. Ushguli historic site and medieval-type villages and tower-houses, which were used both as dwellings and as defense posts against the invaders who plagued the region is shown. The film ends with scenes of farmers, wooden houses, harvesting, cattle herding, and village scenes. Upper Svaneti. (2014). UNESCO. Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/709 C Suzanne Brown. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. Grayscale Silent