The Hunters (1957 film)
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The Hunters is a 1957 ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53.[2] In addition to the giraffe hunt, the film shows other aspects of !Kung life at that time, including family relationships, socializing and storytelling, and the hard work of gathering plant foods and hunting for small game.
The Hunters | |
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Directed by | John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner |
Narrated by | John Marshall |
Cinematography | John Marshall |
Edited by | John Marshall |
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Distributed by | Documentary Educational Resources[1] |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film was produced at the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University by John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner. It won the 1957 Robert J. Flaherty Award for best documentary film from the City College Institute of Film Technique, New York,[3] and was named to the US National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2003 for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".[4][5] The Hunters was preserved in 2000 with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.[6]
In his book At The Edge of History, William Irwin Thompson uses the structure of The Hunters to model the universal form of conflict in values in human institutions.[7]