First contact

Author(s)

• Connolly, Bob
• Anderson, Robin
• Wilson, Tony
• O'Rourke, Dennis
• Young, Stewart
• Down, Martyn
• Oxenburgh, Richard

Bibliographic Information

First contact

produced and directed by Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson

（The highlands trilogy）

Documentary Educational Resources, c2007

Videorecording（Videodisc）

Note

Credits: Photography, Tony Wilson, Dennis O'Rourke ; editor, Stewart Young and Martyn Down ; narrator, Richard Oxenburgh ; music, Ron Carpenter

Extras: Sunday review, interview

"1983" -- Disc label

DVD-Video

Summary: Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain

Details

• NCID: BA88659053
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Watertown, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 1 videodisc (90 min.)
• Size: 12 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN671.N5
  • DC22 : 306.09953
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea
  • LCSH : First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea
  • LCSH : Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88674465