First Contact (1983)
Movie | |
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Original title | First contact |
Country of production | Australia |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1983 |
length | 58 minutes |
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Director |
Robin Anderson , Bob Connolly |
music | Ron Carpenter |
camera |
Dennis O'Rourke , Tony Wilson |
cut |
Martyn Down , Stewart Young |
First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film directed by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly .
The black and white film describes the first contact between the highland peoples of Papua New Guinea and European researchers in the 1930s. They were actually looking for gold and found a million Papuans who had never had contact with the outside world and with a “civilized society”.
First Contact was at the Oscar ceremony in 1984 as Best Documentary nomination, but had to Emile Ardolinos He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin ' admit defeat.
Web links
- First Contact in the Internet Movie Database (English)