The Trobriand Islanders
The Trobriand Islanders
| 01 January 1952 (USA)
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During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting with a single, fixed-focus lens, 16mm camera without tripod — the film is nevertheless useful as a teaching aid. The commentary concentrates on the ethnography of Trobriand life.

Reviews
Marketic

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

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Matialth

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Freaktana

A Major Disappointment

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Darin

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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