Watching First Contact

Ballard, Christopher

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Watching First Contact

Date

2010

Authors

Ballard, Christopher

Publisher

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

First Contact, the first in the celebrated Highlands Trilogy of documentary films by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, tracks the passage in 1933 of the first Europeans to enter the largest of Papua New Guinea's highland valleys. Interviews with surviving