The Masks of Mer / Potlatch Productions ; filmmaker, Michael Eaton.

Other author Eaton, Michael, director, narrator.
Other author Potlatch Productions, production company.
Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationLondon, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2010.
Description1 online resource (37 minutes)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;3233306
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Abstract The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world's first example of anthropological cinema. The Masks of Mer tells the extraordinary story of this experiment and traces the masks worn in the sacred initiation ceremony Haddon filmed. And, for the first time since Haddon himself publicly presented the work, his films are 'synchronised' with the team's phonographic recordings.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).
LanguageIn English.
Genre/formEthnographic films.
Genre/formDocumentary films.

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