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Matto Grosso : the great Brazilian wilderness / a Principal Adventure picture ; Frank R. Wilson presents ; distributed by Principal Distributing Corporation ; directed by John S. Clarke, Jr., Floyd D. Cosby, David M. Newell ; accompanying text by John W. Vandercook. The hoax / Matto Grosso Expedition presents ; produced by the Matto Grosso Expedition in Brazil ; directed by Floyd D. Crosby ; narrative by J.S. Clarke, Jr.
Penn Museum Library DVD F2576 .M25 2013
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- South American Indian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Bororo Indians--Brazil.
- Bororo Indians.
- Scientific expeditions--Brazil.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Hunting--Brazil.
- Hunting.
- Zoology--Brazil.
- Zoology.
- Brazil.
- Mato Grosso (Brazil : State)--Description and travel.
- Mato Grosso (Brazil : State).
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (48 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, PA] : Penn Museum, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English, Boe Wadaru (Bororo), and Portuguese; optional subtitles in English and Portuguese.
- Closed-captioned in English and Portuguese for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In 1930 an odd assortment of scientists and adventurers struck out from New York for the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, with the stated purpose of creating the first documentary film to be made in the field with live sound recording equipment. Some of the resulting footage is seen in this newly restored set, including the expeditionary film- Matto Grosso, the Great Brazilian Wilderness, a 1931-style staged documentary which takes place in what we now think was the village of Pogubu C̨oreu, with the collaboration of the Sa̋o Lourenc̦o Bororo people. In a second short film, The hoax, a young boy out for his first hunt tries to put one over on his elders. A resemblence to the Robert Flaherty film Nanook of the North may be noted here, the director Floyd Crosby had just returned from working with Robert Flaherty in the South Pacific.
- Participant:
- (Matto Grosso) George Rawls, Tari, Vincezo Petrullo (uncredited), James Rehn (uncredited), Alexander (Sasha) Siemel, Captain Victor Perfilieff (uncredited), Sa̋o Lourenc̦o Bororo people of the village of Pogubu C̨oreu.
- (The hoax) Tari, men of the village of Pogubu C̨oreu.
- Credits:
- (Matto Grosso) Photography, Floyd D. Crosby, Arthur P. Rossi; editor, Paul F. Maschke.
- (The hoax) Photography, Arthur Rossi; editor, Florence Bricker.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of two films, both originally produced in Mato Grosso Brazil in 1930-31. Matto Grosso was released in the United States in 1931, and is copyright 1932; The hoax was released in the United States in 1932.
- This release of the 1931 expeditionary film Matto Grosso, is enhanced in several ways for the DVD edition. The film was restored under a grant by the National Film Preservation Foundation, including the sound track. In a project supervised by Penn Museum film archivist Kate Pourshariati, the film was taken to Tadarimana village in the Mato Grosso region not far from where it was originally made, by the anthropologists Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Edgar de Cunha. The film had some original dialogue spoken in Boe Wadaru (Bororo) language, and this was translated back to Portuguese by Beatriz Kagiz, then to English by Novaes and de Cunha.
- The hoax is published in this DVD edition with the kind permission of, and due to a collaboration with the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian.
- Special features: The hoax (9:00) another short film made at the time of the expedition, and 35mm nitrate original out takes from the film footage, which are hand tinted. These are identified as a Workprint in the titles.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Contains:
- Hoax
- OCLC:
- 858634307
- Publisher Number:
- 884501961899
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