| Location: | Solomon Islands |
| Subject: | Death; Social customs |
| Length: | 45 minutes |
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| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 2002 |
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| Director: | Peter Crawford, Trygve Tollefsen, Rolf Scott |
| Producer: | Peter Crawford, Trygve Tollefsen, Rolf Scott |
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| Description: | Alfred Melotu was the paramount chief of the Papua speaking Reef Islanders, in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands. He was filmed during the visit of the Danish anthropologist Jens Pinholt in 1992, where future film plans for documenting custom in the Reef Islands were discussed. His untimely death, during the second visit of the film crew in 1996 changed the plans. What was going to be a film about the life of a paramount chief, and his constant endeavors to preserve the cultural traditions of his people, became a film about his death and funeral. |
| Record No: | 2420 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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