Made by Rudolf Poech (Austria) in the Kalahari desert in the first decade of the century, this film is remarkable as an early attempt to bring sound and image together. … read more
IN THE LAND OF THE WAR CANOES is an edited version of Curtis’s feature film THE LAND OF THE HEADHUNTERS, a dramatized documentary about the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia … read more
Beatrice Blackwood Great Britain 1936-37 | 25 Min. | Video
The 1930s was the heyday of pre-War ethnographic film production, and Blackwood’s footage from New Guinea is typical, although distinguished by a higher standard of camera work. The footage (also … read more
There are several compilations of the Lumiere brothers’ famous first films in film archives around the world. This version comes from the film archive of the Hungarian Film Institute and … read more
Alfred C. Haddon Great Britain 1898 | 4 Min. | Video
This is the earliest location-shot ethnographic film, and indeed one of the earliest films ever made. The four brief scenes were shot during the anthropologist A.C. Haddon’s famous 1898 expedition … read more
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