Director Harry Powell
Country/Production UK
Release 1952
Length 67 mins
Format Colour, B&W / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location Papua Neuguinea, Omarakana, Trobriand Islands / Pacific
Ethnic Group Trobriand Islanders
Comments Study guide available.
Order No RAI-200.58
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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.
