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Showing how workers in three industries (steel, cotton and coal) spend their spare time, this film is famous as the first intimation of Humphrey Jennings’ unique style. Jennings had been involved in mass...
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.
A study of the Eskimos of Ungava in the Cape Dufferin area of the Hudson Bay Territory of northern Canada. A detailed description of the constant battle with a hostile environment; accounts of walrus and...
Eight of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
1963 documentary by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. Marker (who is unseen in the film) asked people on the streets of Paris questions about their personal lives, as well as questions relating to the social...
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