In 1938, anthropologist John Adair traveled to the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand-wind movie camera. Interested in studying traditional silversmithing and rug weaving, he apprenticed himself to Navajo silversmith Tom Burnside. As Dr. Adair recalls: "Much of my workaday job was photographing the techniques of silversmithing. I used the camera as an extension of the traditional process of taking field notes. But as the study progressed, I found great pleasure in taking photographs of people-of Tom, his family, his relatives and the different activities in the community." Susan Fanshel, the director of A Weave of Time, has augmented Adair's remarkable footage with contemporary scenes of the Burnside family, compiling a visual history that spans four generations. In this heartfelt documentary, the daily struggle for family stability, education and economic survival challenge the existence of traditional Navajo culture. Ultimately, the Burnsides's history becomes a microcosm of Navajo life, raising dire questions about the survival of ethnicity. Plus Through Navajo Eyes In 1966, John Adair returned to Pine Springs "to determine whether it is possible to teach people with a technically simple culture to make motion pictures depicting their culture and themselves as they see fit." Intrepid Shadows, by Al Clah, attempts to reconcile the Western notion of God, with traditional Navajo conceptions. The Navajo Silversmith, by Johnny Nelson, traces the creation in silver of small Yebitchai figures, from mining the silver to the finished work.