Trobriand Cricket. A documentary on how papua new guinea s have modified and incorporated their culture in the british game of cricket. University of california at berkeley extension center for media.
Directed by gary kildea jerry leach. Trobriand cricket is one of the most important and most celebrated ethnographic documentaries ever made. Which stories are passed from generation to generation.
It was shot in three weeks on a budget of around au 180 000.
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