Researchers restore long-lost 1913 epic (fwd link)

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Researchers restore long-lost 1913 epic
Edward S. Curtis movie features Kwakwaka'wakw residents on B.C.'s northern coast

MARSHA LEDERMAN
>From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
June 24, 2008 at 4:04 AM EDT

VANCOUVER — Eight years before Nanook of the North, there was In the Land of the
Head Hunters.

Filmed mostly in and around Fort Rupert, B.C., in 1913 by Edward S. Curtis, Head
Hunters was a landmark feature in that it not only used indigenous people to
play indigenous characters, but it also told an aboriginal story - as opposed
to using native caricatures to play the bad guys in a cowboys-and-Indians
scenario.

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