Dead Birds (1965 film)

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Dead Birds

Screenshot from Dead Birds
Directed by Robert Gardner
Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources
Release date(s) 1964
Running time 84 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
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Dead Birds is a 1965 documentary film by Robert Gardner about the the Dani people of New Guinea. It was produced as part of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to study the highlands of New Guinea, at that time one of the only remaining areas in the world uncolonized by Europeans.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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