Primitive Peoples of Matto Grosso 1941

This awkwardly narrated black and white film from 1941 shows Anthropologist George Rawls interacting with the Bororo people of Brazil.

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This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.

This movie is part of the collection: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films at http://www.archive.org

Producer: Ted Nemeth
Narrator: Lowell Thomas

Category:

Education

Tags:

• upenn
• f16
• 4013
• 1941
• Primitive
• Peoples
• of
• Matto
• Grosso

[jspinac1]

Good documentry :)

[smuuuuuuuth]

Nothing awkward. Lowell Thomas was a great narrator.

[repoman174]

totanka

[mercanaries3]

@7777TubeSurfer

body shots?

[7777TubeSurfer]

No salt? How did they do body shots?!

Someone at the university must have had a friend in Hollywood or at Movietone News.

[TheChilly77]

wow, salt is unheard of!! Why do they cage a bird??

[zippyman818]

I agree, there's nothing awkward about the narration. This is a slick production for a pre-war film. The aerial footage is fantastic as a contemporaneous record. Travelogue-style films were the high-tech way of learning about other parts of the world, since at the time, no one is flying halfway around the world in less than half a day on a comfortable jetliner.

Other continents, regardless of their cultures and people, are a mystery to the rest of the world until years later.

[richw9090]

That was hardly awkward narration - that is Lowell Thomas!