In the land of the headhunters movie archive#
The button?” followed, with neither archive certain as to the whereabouts ofĮvans and Aaron Glass eventually recovered the missing elements, not to mentionĪ hefty number of copyrighted film frames that had been placed in the Library A lengthy period of “button, button-who’s got
Shepard in the 1970s and donated to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Succumbed to nitrate decomposition (speeded up by Curtis’ insistence on usingĬolor tints and tones in what was labeled “the Hochstetter process”) butįortunately had been transferred to 16mm by the Field Museum of Natural HistoryĪddition, two 35mm reels had been discovered by film preservationist David
In the land of the headhunters movie movie#
Movie to other markets killed any future opportunities for profit.įor many years, all that remained of Head Hunters was a shortened 16mm version that was released in 1973, However, a legal dispute with Head Hunters’ distributor-the fledglingĪnd short-lived World Film Company-over who would pony up the funds to take the Opened to much critical praise and respectable box office. put together In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), a motion picture that Individuals from the Kwakiutl tribe-and relying on his skills and those of hisĪdmittedly inexperienced crew-Edward S. Nature of this project-though a few movie directors were dabbling in longerįeatures, Curtis’ film was produced before Kwakiutl people (now referred to as Kwakwaka’wakw) living on Canada’s Vancouver His roll-of-the-dice gamble was a fictional film depicting the life of the Investors for a movie project that would provide him security and solvency, and Curtis had an ambitious plan to cull together Morgan, Edward was flatīroke ten years into chronicling The North American Indian.
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