10 mins., b&w, silent
Production and Source : IWF, ‘published’ in their Encyclopaedia Cinematographic.
Content : This film was originally shot in 1949 and concerns a cremation ceremony among the Toda adivasi (‘tribal’) group of the Nilgiri Hills, South India.
The film-maker, Prince Peter (1908-1980) was a soldier and member of the Greek royal family who had studied anthropology at the London School of Economics in 1935-36.
[Thanks to Paul Hockings for drawing the existence of this film to our attention]