The Hunters: A !Kung Bushmen Film
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| The Hunters | |
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 Screenshot from The Hunters |
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| Directed by | John Marshall |
| Narrated by | John Marshall |
| Distributed by | Documentary Educational Resources |
| Release date(s) | 1957 |
| Running time | 72 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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The Hunters is a film by ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall.
The film is an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering. John Marshall was a young man when he made this, his first feature length film. He was a natural cameraman who found a subject that would dominate the rest of his life. He has since shot over 600,000 feet of film from which 24 films were edited. The value of the footage as an encyclopedia of !Kung life is unequaled by any other body of ethnographic film.
The film is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
[edit] References
- John Marshall: The Hunters. www.der.org. Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
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