'First Contact'
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This classic, award-winning film about cultural confrontation is as compelling today as it was when first released over 40 years ago. When Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama of their first encounter. But, in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of gold, they carried with them a movie camera - and thus were able to capture, on film, their unexpected confrontation with thousands of Stone Age people who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys. This amazing footage forms the basis of 'First Contact'.Yet there is more to this extraordinary film than the footage that was recovered. Fifty years later some of the participants are still alive and vividly recall their unique experience. The Papuans tell how they thought the white men were their ancestors, bleached by the sun and returned from the dead.
Date
Saturday 28 March 2026 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC+11)Location
Wagstaffe Community Hall
55 Wagstaffe Ave., Wagstaffe NSW 2257
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'First Contact'
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