Native India (1916) – dir. George A. Dorsey

27 mins., b&w.

Source: ?

This film was made in the course of an expedition to India by George Amos Dorsey, then Curator of Anthropology  at the Field Museum in Chicago.

It has been described by Marcus Banks (2007:64)  as probably the only substantial non-fiction film shot in India prior to 1920.

 

Text: Banks 2007

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