Results

Full access to all collections is a privilege of BUFVC membership. If you are already a BUFVC member, please log in. Otherwise you may join now.
21-30 of 52 results | Page 3 of 6
Sort results by
  1. News Flashes - Stop Press

    Date released
    3 Apr 1944
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1366
    NoS ID
    039111
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    General Macarthur directs conquest in Admiralty Islands.

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news Digitised Documents Digitised Documents To order To order Moving image Moving image
  2. People of Porgera (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  3. Carrot and the Stick, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Susi Arnott
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  4. News from the Far East Fronts

    Date released
    10 Aug 1942
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1259
    NoS ID
    147107
    Story no
    1 / 5

    Supplies for China via India. Action on the Aleutian Islands. Americans attacked at Port Moresby.

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image
  5. First Contact (2007)

    Director
    Mark Anstice
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    The dense lowland swamps of New Guinea and the outer reaches of the Amazon Basin are home to the last groups of ‘uncontacted’ hunter-gatherer tribes still in existence. They are the few human beings that...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  6. Decorations (1972 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  7. Allies "Soften" Lae before Land Attack

    Date released
    9 Sep 1943
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1307
    NoS ID
    038826
    Story no
    1 / 3

    Naval and air units under MacArthur’s command attack Japanese stronghold in preparation for Australian landing.

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image
  8. Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jerry W Leach
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £37.50

    An ethnographic film about cricket as played in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. In the first half the people explain how to play the game and tell why they changed it over the last 70 years. The...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  9. Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Les McLaren
    Producer
    Les McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the people of three villages on an island in Lake Chambri, adjacent to the Sepik river. Featured are the men’s sacred paired flutes, flute ensembles, slit drums and voice masks, which all have...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  10. Yumi Yet (1976 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Documents Papua New Guinea’s Independence Day celebrations in of 16 September 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the capital. Also provides historical...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
21-30 of 52 results | Page 3 of 6
Sort results by