The Blonde Captive
The Blonde Captive is a 1931 American controversial PreCode film directed by Clinton Childs, Ralph P. King, Linus J. Wilson, and Paul Withington. The film took previously released anthropological footage of native people in the Pacific and Australia, and added a sensationalised storyline.
The film is narrated by explorer Lowell Thomas. Dr. Paul Withington of Harvard University and archaeologist Clinton Childs conduct an anthropological expedition to Australia. The film opens with the men discussing the exhibition in the explorers club. The exhibition hopes to travel and then find the people on earth most related to the ancient neanderthals. Sailing from the west coast of America, the expedition filmed indigenous peoples and customs of the islands along the way. The documentary stops in Hawaii and shows native Hawaiians. It then stops in Bali, where topless Balinese women are shown as they go about their daily life. Also visited are Fijian islanders in Fiji, and Maoris living traditionally in New Zealand.The documentary arrives in Sydney, and the harbour and city are shown. The documentary then travelling by train to Ooldea, South Australia where they filmed Aboriginals living in the desert. They then travel to Broome and visit the Aboriginal settlement of Boolah Boolah. They then sail to the Timor Sea and film native people fishing. A dugong is cut up, and a sea turtle is dissected alive. The expedition returns to the mainland, where they again meet Aborigines who have not lost their cannibal instincts. Examining the faces of Aborigines, with flashbacks to an anthropology book, the documentary declares that it has found the people on earth most resembling mankinds ancestor, the neanderthals. ........
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