Friday, January 28, 2011

New Guinea Highlanders Meet Europeans: Part 2

(Footage removed at source, again. Sorry!)

I wish the footage was in better shape, but in many ways it adds to the eeriness of this piece. The music is hair-raising.  The sense that something utterly new and alien has appeared in the New Guinea Highlands is palpable.  "We thought we were the only people in the world," one old gentleman says.  I say: This footage is creepier than the last scary movie you saw.

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