| Location: | Yap, Micronesia |
| Subject: | Culture change; television |
| Length: | 55 minutes |
| Format: | 16mm; Video? |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1982 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Dennis O'Rourke |
| Producer: | Dennis OĠRourke |
| Distributor: | CameraWork |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 4435, UH film H69 |
| Description: | Shows the introduction of American television to Yap, a small island of 6,000 inhabitants in Micronesia. With incongruous images of locals glued to the television set against the beauty of their island paradise, this film gives a witty but disturbing account of cultural imperialism at its most cynical and blatant. Yapese and English dialogue, English subtitles. |
| Record No: | 2401 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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