Dead Birds
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Robert Gardner
Director
Robert Gardner
Narrator
Joyce Chopra
Main titles
Peter Chopra
Main titles
Eliot Elisofon
Director of Photography
Robert Gardner
Film Editor
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
Jan
1965
Premiere Information
San Francisco showing: Jan 1965
Production Company
Peabody Museum; The Netherlands Government
Distribution Company
Contemporary Films
Country
United States
Synopsis
This study of the Dani, a tribe of Western New Guinea, concentrates on one man and his family. The pattern of life alternates between laborious farm work, carried on mainly by the women and children, and fierce battles, waged by the male warriors.
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
Jan
1965
Premiere Information
San Francisco showing: Jan 1965
Production Company
Peabody Museum; The Netherlands Government
Distribution Company
Contemporary Films
Country
United States
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Produced in 1962-63.
