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  1. Nomads of the Wind (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Phil Chapman; Peter Crawford; Mark Jacobs
    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (each part) 1996 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) (series)

    Series exploring the relationship between man and nature in the South Paciific. 1: Polynesian seafarers settled the islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas some 2000 years ago, islands of immense natural...

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  2. Predator, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...

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  3. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

    Director
    F W Murnau
    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £19.99

    In 1929, German filmmaker F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise), invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location...

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  4. Moana (1923 Film)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.

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