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Chang (1927 Video)

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 67 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

A documentary film about a rice farmer and his family who live on the edge of the jungle in Siam and struggle for survival against numerous wild animals including bears, tigers and leopards. Includes footage...

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Grass (1925 Film, Video)

aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...

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Triumph (1924 Film)

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

Producer

Cecil B. DeMille

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Presumed a lost film.

Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...

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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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Enchantment (1921 Film)

Director

Robert G. Vignola

Feature film comedy. Ethel Hoyt (Davies), the only child of wealthy parents, surrounds herself with six young college men and spends her time dancing and dining with them, causing her parents to become...

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