Research Catalog

Title

First contact [videorecording] / narrator, Richard Oxenburgh ; made in association with the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies ; produced and directed by Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson.

Publication

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Connolly, Bob.
• Anderson, Robin.

Description

1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain.

Subjects

• First contact (Anthropology) > Papua New Guinea
• Acculturation > Papua New Guinea
• Primitive societies > First contact with Europeans
• Gold miners > Papua New Guinea > Biography
• Documentary films
• Photography in ethnology > History
• Leahy, Dan, 1912-1991
• Leahy, Michael, 1901-1979
• Ethnology > New Guinea

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Call Number

*UGS-544

OCLC

37132156

Title

First contact [videorecording] / narrator, Richard Oxenburgh ; made in association with the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies ; produced and directed by Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson.

Imprint

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1984.

System Details

VHS.

Added Author

Connolly, Bob.

Anderson, Robin.

Research Call Number

*UGS-544 [Video]