Tribe meets white man for the first time
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That's a tribe from New Guinea. I like documentaries but my only concern is if the tribe get's I'll from the explorers.
I don't think this documentary is that new. I saw something along the same lines years ago, and yes, these type of "lost hidden tribe sees other humans for the first time" type programnes are usually from places such as Papa New Guinea, Borneo or deep in the Congo of Africa.
I find it sad that these tribes have lived in these places for thousands of years undisturbed, having no impact on their surroundings at all, and then we go and poke our noses in.
Although i've seen the initial "meet and greet" type programmes where the film producers get "permission" from the tribe elders to live amongst them for a few days, i'd be more interested in what happens then? Do the film crew just pack up, say cheerio and disappear leaving them to their archaic way of life forever more, or once these tribes are found are they continually visited and slowly introduced to "white man" culture, as in medicines, better tools for working their land, education for the children etc etc.
I find it sad that these tribes have lived in these places for thousands of years undisturbed, having no impact on their surroundings at all, and then we go and poke our noses in.
Although i've seen the initial "meet and greet" type programmes where the film producers get "permission" from the tribe elders to live amongst them for a few days, i'd be more interested in what happens then? Do the film crew just pack up, say cheerio and disappear leaving them to their archaic way of life forever more, or once these tribes are found are they continually visited and slowly introduced to "white man" culture, as in medicines, better tools for working their land, education for the children etc etc.
.....for some reason I am reminded of the guy from a few years ago who traveled to an Andaman island and was killed by the natives.
Yes that was it.I think the body or, remains were recovered.I recall the boatman who ferried him there being in a bit of trouble with the government as no outsiders were allowed to travel to the island.
I'm of the opinion that most of these so called untouched tribe documentaries are staged (anyone seen "krippendorf's tribe"?) I could see this encounter actually happening 30, 40 years ago but now I'm pretty sure all the dark corners of the world have been found, mapped, and are on the way to being paved, and the peoples who lived there either assimilated or even exploited into our busy, corpocratic world.
The same cheapening has seemed to happen with most nature documentaries. They doctor footage together of different animals (often in fenced-in "reserves") doing mundane things with canned music and corny narration to try and imitate something dramatic is happening.
The same cheapening has seemed to happen with most nature documentaries. They doctor footage together of different animals (often in fenced-in "reserves") doing mundane things with canned music and corny narration to try and imitate something dramatic is happening.
I don't know if you watch any of the David Attenbrough material, he is the god of nature documentaries imo. His latest stuff over the past few years incorporates a "how did they do it" type section at the end of each programme.
The extremes at which they go to just to get a few minutes of film is a pure lesson in film making perseverence and attrition. When you see what they go through you could almost forgive them if they did decide to "stage" some footage, but hats off to him and his film crew because their programnes are the real deal, or if they're not, then they've pulled the wool over my eyes, lol.
David attenborough is classic and authentic of course. I'm talking about more recent programming which plays more like reality TV than an informative documentary.