First Contact

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Title: First Contact
Producer: Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, Richard Oxenburgh (narrator)
Category: History, Society
Views: 1194
Added: Nov 26th 2011
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Original footage of the 'first contact' between Papuan highlanders and Australian gold prospectors in the 1930's, together with reflections from surviving participants on their swift introduction to Western colonialism.

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