HADDON is an online catalogue of early documentary films and unedited film footage from around the world, shot during the period of 1895-1945. The catalogue contains details of over 1500 films and lengths of film footage selected for their potential interest to ethnographers and anthropologists, historians, film historians and anyone interested in the visual representation of non-European peoples in the first half-century of cinema should also find it a valuable resource. The records themselves have been gathered from over 25 film archives, museums and other institutions around the world, and there is an ongoing programme to identify further archival repositories and collect further records. Named after the British anthropologist A.C.Haddon, in commemoration of his pioneering film work in the Torres Strait Islands in 1898, the catalogue is available through the World Wide Web.
Marcus Banks, professor for Ethnology at the Oxford University.