The India Trip /
Pondicherry, an ancient city near the Southern tip of India, was for several centuries an outpost of France. Now the French influence has faded but another, stranger, colony is growing on its outskirts--Auroville, a community of Europeans and North Americans who have come to live the contemplative l...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
| Published: |
Montreal :
National Film Board of Canada,
1971.
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online, volume 2
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Pondicherry, an ancient city near the Southern tip of India, was for several centuries an outpost of France. Now the French influence has faded but another, stranger, colony is growing on its outskirts--Auroville, a community of Europeans and North Americans who have come to live the contemplative life. They are devotees of Sri Aurobindo, a Bengali poet and mystic, and their guru is a ninety-four-year-old woman from France. This spiritual mecca is described in the film by Albert Jordan, a professor from Concordia University, Montréal, who, in 1971, with his family, spent a year there. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (49 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:49:32 |
| Audience: | Régie du cinéma du Québec rating: G. CHV rating: G. |
| Production Credits: | Director/script, Bill Davies ; producer, George Pearson ; photography, Eugene Boyko ; sound, Hans Oomes ; editing, Torben Schioler ; sound editing, Ken Page ; re-recording, George Croll ; narrator, Al Jordan. |