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First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the incursion of gold-prospecting Australians into the unexplored interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930, then inhabited by a prosperous native population numbering in the region of one million. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes both moving and still pictures taken by Michael Leahy, leader of the party, and contemporary footage of the island's terrain.

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  • First Contact ist ein australischer Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 1983. Regie führten Robin Anderson und . Der Schwarzweißfilm beschreibt den ersten Kontakt zwischen den Hochlandvölkern Papua-Neuguineas mit europäischen Forschern in den 1930er Jahren. Diese waren eigentlich auf der Suche nach Gold und fanden eine Million Papuas, die nie zuvor Kontakt zur Außenwelt und zu einer „zivilisierten Gesellschaft“ hatten. First Contact war bei der Oscarverleihung 1984 als Bester Dokumentarfilm nominiert, musste sich aber Emile Ardolinos geschlagen geben. (de)
  • First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the incursion of gold-prospecting Australians into the unexplored interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930, then inhabited by a prosperous native population numbering in the region of one million. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes both moving and still pictures taken by Michael Leahy, leader of the party, and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It won Best Feature Documentary at the 1983 Australian Film Institute Awards. (en)
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  • Australia (en)
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  • First Contact (en)
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  • Richard Oxenburgh (en)
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  • 1983-12-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Arundel Productions (en)
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  • First Contact (en)
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  • First Contact ist ein australischer Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 1983. Regie führten Robin Anderson und . Der Schwarzweißfilm beschreibt den ersten Kontakt zwischen den Hochlandvölkern Papua-Neuguineas mit europäischen Forschern in den 1930er Jahren. Diese waren eigentlich auf der Suche nach Gold und fanden eine Million Papuas, die nie zuvor Kontakt zur Außenwelt und zu einer „zivilisierten Gesellschaft“ hatten. First Contact war bei der Oscarverleihung 1984 als Bester Dokumentarfilm nominiert, musste sich aber Emile Ardolinos geschlagen geben. (de)
  • First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the incursion of gold-prospecting Australians into the unexplored interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930, then inhabited by a prosperous native population numbering in the region of one million. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes both moving and still pictures taken by Michael Leahy, leader of the party, and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. (en)
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  • First Contact (1983) (de)
  • First Contact (1983 film) (en)
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