First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the incursion of gold-prospecting Australians into the unexplored interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930, then inhabited by a prosperous native population numbering in the region of one million. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes both moving and still pictures taken by Michael Leahy, leader of the party, and contemporary footage of the island's terrain.
First Contact (1983)
Directed by Bob Connolly / Robin Anderson
Genres - Documentary |
Release Date - May 19, 1983 |
Run Time - 58 min. |
Countries - United States of America |
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1983 Australian Film Institute Awards, Academy Award, Area, Associate, Author, Best Documentary Feature, Best Feature Documentary, Book, Brother, Contemporary, Expedition, Gold, Inhabitant, Island, Land, Leahy, Meeting, Member, Michael Leahy, Native Population, New Guinea, Photograph, Region
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Subject: Documentary about indigenous rights
Alternate Titles
Ensimmäinen kosketus
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First Contact
AU, FR, GB, US
The Last Unknown
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