Log in to save to my catalogue

First contact [videorecording]

First contact [videorecording]

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvdZpQymZM

First contact [videorecording]

About this item

Full title

First contact [videorecording]

Publisher

Glebe, N.S.W. : Arundel Productions [producer] ; Canberra, A.C.T. : Ronin Films, c1984.

Call Numbers

VB9521

Record Identifier

74VvdZpQymZM

MMS ID

991005770159702626

Language

  • English
  • Papiamento

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

1 videocassette (VHS) (54 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.

Publication information

Publisher

Glebe, N.S.W. : Arundel Productions [producer] ; Canberra, A.C.T. : Ronin Films, c1984.

Date Published

c1984.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Based on films & photographs shot in the 1930s by Michael and Daniel Leahy, the first Europeans to encounter the inhabitants of the central New Guinea highlands, whose existence had not been previously known. Documents the first contact of the two cultures and also records the impressions, some fifty years later, of both the surviving Australian go...

Alternative Titles

Full title

First contact [videorecording]

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Documentary.

Mostly in English; some PNG local dialect[s?] subtitled in English.

Also available as a motion picture.

Audience note

Australia. Film Censorship Board Rating: PG.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c1984.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

VB9521

Record Identifier

74VvdZpQymZM

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvdZpQymZM

Other Identifiers

DDC

919.55

MMS ID

991005770159702626

How to access this item

1 of 0Request as a Library member