In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
- Directed by
- Edward S. Curtis
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, docufiction
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent film tells a story set among the Kwakwaka'wakw people of coastal British Columbia. It follows a young warrior as he seeks to win the woman he loves.
slow-burncontemplativehistoricalculturally immersedearnestvisualstagedserene
What happens
In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw native people. The film was selected in 1999 for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant." It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. Most of the film was shot on the Deer Island near Fort Rupert, British Columbia. It was the first feature film made in British Columbia, and is the oldest surviving feature film made in Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Mad Hermit (1914)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.