| The Hunters | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner |
| Narrated by | John Marshall |
| Release date(s) | 1957 |
| Running time | 72 minutes |
The Hunters is a 1957 ethnographic film about a giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert by four members of the JuǀʼHoansi tribe. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53.[1]
The resulting film, which was produced at the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University by John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner, won the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1958,[1] and was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2003 for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".[2]