The Hunters

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From the !Kung series
by John Marshall
color, 72 min, 1957

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This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering. John Marshall was a young man when he made this, his first feature length film. He was a natural cameraman who found a subject that would dominate the rest of his life. He has since shot over 600,000 feet of film from which 24 films were edited. The value of the footage as an encyclopedia of !Kung life is unequaled by any other body of ethnographic film. The entire series is currently available through DER.

Please see also: A Kalahari Family

Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards
American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon

Other films in the !Kung series:

• An Argument about Marriage
• Baobab Play
• Bitter Melons
• Children Throw Toy Assegais
• A Curing Ceremony
• Debe's Tantrum
• First Film
• A Group of Women
• A Joking Relationship
• A Kalahari Family
• !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment
• The !Kung San: Traditional Life
• The !Kung San: Resettlement
• Lion Game
• The Meat Fight
• The Melon Tossing Game
• Men Bathing
• N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
• N/um Tchai: the Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
• Playing with Scorpions
• Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out
• A Rite of Passage
• To Hold Our Own Ground: A Field Report
• Tug-Of-War, Bushmen
• The Wasp Nest

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