Table of Contents
Foreword John P. Homiak v
Acknowledgments xiii
Expeditions, Their Films and Histories: An Introduction Robert J. Gordon Alison K. Brown Joshua A. Bell 1
Moving Image Technology and Archives Pamela Wintle 31
Ethnographic Film Practices in Silent German Cinema Wolfgang Fuhrmann 41
Grass Before Kong: "Natives" in the Films of Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack Daniel Bradburd 55
First Contact as Real Contact: The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expedition to Turukhansk Territory David G. Anderson 72
Camping Among The Indians: Visual Education and the Sponsored Expedition Film at the American Museum of Natural History Alison Griffiths 90
Mistaken Gods and Other Misnomers of First Contact of the U.S. department of Agriculture 1928 Sugarcane Expedition to New Guinea Joshua A. Bell 109
"Beyond the End of Steel": Recasting the Franklin Motor Expedition to Canada Alison K. Brown 129
On Safari with Martin and Osa Johnson Lamont Lindstrom 147
The Riddle of Hell's Jungle: Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel's Expeditions to the Primeval Forests of Liberia and the Amazon During the 1930s Holger Stoecker 162
Africa Speaks (But to Whom?): Expeditionary Anthropology in a Minor Key Robert J. Gordon 184
"Primitive Blacks Face White Man's Laws": The 1932 Anthropological Expedition to Mt. Liebig, Central Australia Philip Batty 197
"The Africa I Know": Film and the Making of "Bushmen" in Laurens Van Der Post's Lost World of Kalahari (1956) Lauren van Vuuren 215
Afterword Henrika Kuklick 231
Appendix: Films, Technology, and Institutional Histories 241
Notes on the Contributors 253
Index 257