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Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
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Wikipedia article
'Shipwrecked Among Cannibals' is a 1920 American silent travel documentary film directed by William F. Alder, and released by Universal Studios in July 1920..[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/ShipwreckedAmongCannib1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Shipwrecked Among Cannibals'] at silentera.com
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.
Reception
Under the pretense of being an educational ethnographic film, film producers have often justified exploitative elements such as half-clad natives in South Seas island documentaries. At least one educational publication, which appeared to take the film as fully authentic, suggested that this film could with review be used in schools. Although 'Shipwrecked Among Cannibals' generally received good reviews, it did not do well at the box office.
Preservation status
With no listing in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9120/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'Shipwrecked Among Cannibals'] 'Shipwrecked Among Cannibals' is a lost film.
See also
*Nudity in film
References
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