蛮夷之地

In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to visit the Kwakwaka'wakw. By the next year, needing money for his project and to add to his research and still photography work, Curtis decided that the best way to record the traditional way of life and ceremonies of the Kwakwaka'wakw was to make one of the first feature motion pictures. Curtis had already shot footage in 1906 of the Hopi Snake dance, which he had previously showed during his talks, but this was to be on a grander scale. It took three years of preparation for this one film including the weaving of the costumes; building of the war canoes, housefronts, poles; and the carving of masks. Assisting on the film was George Hunt, a Kwakwaka'wakw who had served as an interpreter for the famous anthropologist Franz Boas nearly twenty years before. Hunt helped contribute substantial portions of the film's story as well. Selected for the ...

比《北方的纳努克》早，很难说是剧情片还是纪录片。但故事的塑造和纳努克的“摆拍”造成的叙事效果是一样的。 也许这也是一种真实吧。音乐真好。

要不是后来票房惨淡，这部片子比南努克拍得早，导演是拍印第安人出名的人类学家。

加拿大西海岸夸丘特尔人的原始生活与部落纷争，非常具有文化意识的一部默片，可能有些材料损坏了，修复版的看起来有点像PPT