Black harvest / Arundel Productions ; produced and directed by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Connolly, Bob, director, producer.

Anderson, Robin, director, producer.

Direct Cinema Ltd., distributor.

Arundel Productions, producer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Papuan (Other)

Subjects (All):

Leahy, Joe.

Coffee growers--Papua New Guinea.

Coffee growers.

Capitalism--Papua New Guinea.

Capitalism.

Coffee plantation workers--Papua New Guinea.

Coffee plantation workers.

Papua New Guinea.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

First contact.

Joe Leahy's neighbours.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema Limited, [1993?]

Language Note:

English language, and indigenous language with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Features a joint business venture between Joe Leahy, a wealthy mixed-race coffee plantation owner, and the Ganiga, an aboriginal tribe in Papua New Guinea. When world coffee prices collapse, the workers' wages are drastically reduced and this leads to tribal warfare.

Credits:

Camera, Bob Connolly; sound, Robin Anderson; editing, Ray Thomas, Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson; translators, Thomas Taim, Maggie Wilson.

Notes:

Sequel to: First contact and Joe Leahy's neighbours.

Produced with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission ; made in association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, LA SEPT (France), Channel Four Television (U.K.) and Institute of PNG Studies.

Videocassette release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1992.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1559743980

OCLC:

29415332