Shipwrecked Among Cannibals

Shipwrecked Among Cannibals (1920)

The hair-raising experiences of two dare-devil Camera Men- Fellows of the American Academy of Sciences- who narrowly escaped being eaten alive.

After opening scenes showing volcanoes of Java, an underground river, waterfalls, cloud effects, a coral island, the Ghost Rocks of Buru, and a tiger hunt in Siam, documentary footage of the cannibal tribes of New Guinea is framed by a fictional narrative in which the scientific expedition is shipwrecked along the southern New Guinea coast in the land of the Kia Kia headhunters, thus affording the crew the opportunity to film the tribal customs of these cannibals.

Date of release
1920-07-04
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Documentary, Adventure
Director
Edward Laemmle, William F. Adler

Interesting facts

Shipwrecked Among Cannibals is a 1920 American silent travel documentary film directed by William F. Alder, and released by Universal Studios in July 1920.

Production background

The film featured episodes from Siam, Java, and New Guinea plus an apparently fictitious encounter with cannibals on a small island in the South Pacific. Filming among the tribes in Dutch New Guinea was done by William F. Alder and Edward Laemmle, who was the nephew of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios.

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