Disappearing world:

Disappearing world: out of the forest [Videorecording] Kayapo: Granada Television International. - Chicago, Films Inc., c1989, c1991. - 1 videocassette (VHS) (52 min.) snd., col. 1/2 in.

Video release of the 1989 production. Commentary in English; conversations in native Indian language with English subtitles.

Anthropologist, Terry Turner; produced and directed by Michael Beckham; camera, Mike Blakeley, Howard Somers; film editor, Paul Griffiths-Davies; research, Peter Connors. Anthropologist, Terry Turner; produced and directed by Michael Beckham; camera, Mike Blakeley, Howard Somers; film editor, Paul Griffiths-Davies; research, Peter Connors.

Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira. Includes the demonstration by 600 Kayapo against the proposed dam and their success in stopping its construction.


VHS format.

0780001044

047-9014 Films Inc. Video


Cayapo Indians.
Indians of South America--Brazil--Xingu River Valley.
Documentary films.