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US Bombers at Port Moresby

Date released

13 Jul 1942

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1251

NoS ID

147077

Story no

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Red Bowmen, The (1981 Film, Video)

Producer

Chris Owen

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Each year a fertility ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sowanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Explores the complex symbolism...

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Story of English, The (1998 Video)

Producer

Pater Dale; Vivian Ducat

1: The diversity of ‘varieties’ of English in use throughout the world including public school/Oxbridge, post-colonial in India and Africa, feminist, high-tech, American, Pacific Basin, gay, academic....

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Papua Medeka! - Free Papua (2003)

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (40 minutes), cost price

Documents the destruction of the land and people in the Indonesian colony of West Papua / Irian Jaya, and their independence struggle . The native people of West Papua are being obliterated by a repressive...

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Pepsi War (1992 Video)

Director

Charlie Clay

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen a resurgance in tribal warfare. This film follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles.

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Global Cooperation (1998 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £47.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Four case studies illustrate how development aid is being used in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam to achieve global cooperation between nations, illustrating how appropriate aid involves working with local...

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Garden Island, The (1968 Film)

Director

Steve Szabo

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An introduction, illustrating some of Malinowski’s material, to the ethnography of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua, showing gardening methods, magic, harvest, and dances, including among the latter...

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Bird of the Thunderwoman (1980 Film)

Director

David Parer

Producer

David Parer

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The exchange ceremony of the Wola people of the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea. The fusion of myth and drama in the ritual of the cassowary (a large flightless bird) is illustrated.

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Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea (1990 Video)

Director

David Wason

Producer

David Wason

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The inhabitants of the Trobriand Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a group of small tropical atolls, are renowned for their rich yam production and the high drama of their harvest activities. Some...

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Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea (1988 Video)

Director

Jon Jerstad; Ariane Lewis

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A record of Rauit village, Sepik Inland, Papua New Guinea, chiefly from the woman’s point of view. Opens with the final stages of a ritual called ‘malyi’ with a masked dancer performing and the...

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