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  title info:
    title: First contact
  name:
    name part: Connolly, Bob
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Anderson, Robin
    name part: 1948-2002
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Smith, Dick
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Tony
    role:
      role term: director of photography
  name:
    name part: O'Rourke, Dennis
    role:
      role term: director of photography.
  name:
    name part: Young, Stewart
    role:
      role term: editor of moving image work.
  name:
    name part: Down, Martyn
    role:
      role term: editor of moving image work.
  name:
    name part: Carpenter, Ron
    role:
      role term: composer (expression)
  name:
    name part: Oxenburgh, Richard
    role:
      role term: narrator.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
    role:
      role term: publishing company.
  name:
    name part: Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: Webcast
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Nonfiction films
  genre: Internet videos
  genre: Films for the hearing impaired
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Made-for-TV movies
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Films for the hearing impaired.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Vidéos sur Internet.
  genre: Films pour personnes ayant une déficience auditive.
  genre: Films autres que de fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: paa
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately min.) : sound, color and black and white
  abstract: This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over 20 years ago. When Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama of this first encounter. But, in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of gold, they carried a movie camera. Thus they captured on film their unexpected confrontation with thousands of Stone Age people who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys. This amazing footage forms the basis of First contact. Yet there is more to this extraordinary film than the footage that was recovered. Fifty years later some of the participants are still alive and vividly recall their unique experience. The Papuans tell how they thought the white men were their ancestors, bleached by the sun and returned from the dead. They were amazed at the artifacts of 20th century life such as tin cans, phonographs and airplanes. When shown their younger, innocent selves in the found footage, they recall the darker side of their relationship with these mysterious beings with devastating weapons. Australian Dan Leahy describes his fear at being outnumbered by primitive looking people with whom he could not speak. He felt he had to dominate them for his own survival and to continue his quest for gold. First contact is one of those rare films that holds an audience spell-bound. Humor and pathos are combined in this classic story of colonialism, told by the people who were there--Kanopy.
  note: associate producer, Dick Smith ; produced and directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson ; made in association with The Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Access restricted to subscribers.
  note: Narrator, Richard Oxenburgh ; participants, Mick Leahy, Daniel Leahy, James Taylor.
  note: Originally produced in 1983.
  note: Photography, Tony Wilson and Dennis O'Rourke ; editor, Stewart Young and Martyn Down ; music, Ron Carpenter.
  note: English and Papuan dialogue with English closed-captioning.
  note: Cinéma du Réel, Cinéma du Réel Award, 1983
  subject:
    geographic code: a-pp---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Leahy, Michael J
      name part: 1901-1979
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Leahy, Dan
      name part: 1912-1991
  subject:
    topic: First contact (Anthropology)
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Characteristics
  subject:
    topic: Premiers contacts (Anthropologie)
    geographic: Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  subject:
    topic: Ethnologie
    geographic: Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  subject:
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Documentaires
  subject:
    topic: customs (social concepts)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Leahy, Michael J
      name part: 1901-1979
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Leahy, Dan
      name part: 1912-1991
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: First contact (Anthropology)
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
  classification: GN671.N5 F57 2014
  classification: [E]
  identifier: 1095888 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: Access restricted to subscribers.
  record info:
    record content source: KNOPY
    record creation date: 140819
    record change date: 20260604153557.9
    record identifier: in00004370659
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng