An online version of the documentary film “The Tribal Eye” featuring Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands was ‘published’ on Youtube by the organization Etnografia.
According to Kirk Hoffman, Research Associate at the Australian Museum,
“…a classic and- most widely viewed – documentary films on Melanesian arts and ritual. Filmed by (later Sir) David Attenborough and a 5-man BBC film crew in areas of the then New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) and the Solomons in 1974, it was broadcast on BBC 2 in the UK in 1975 (and shown there again in 1976) as part of Sir David’s massive 10-part ‘The Tribal Eye” series. The series was then eventually shown widely across the English-speaking world. The BBC has recently re-released the whole series as a boxed DVD set.”
Access the youtube link and check it out!
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