First contact /

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 i...

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Other Authors: Oxenburgh, Richard (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Undetermined
Language Notes:Spoken in English and undetermined languages, possibly Pidgin English and Temboka, with English subtitles.
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1983.
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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