Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1975-01-01
  • Runtime: 0h 54min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: U'mista Cultural Society
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Director: Dennis Wheeler

Summary

Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the Potlatch. Archival photographs and films, wax roll sound recordings, police reports, the original potlatch files, and correspondence of agents form the basis of the reconstruction of period events, while the film centres on a Potlatch given today by the Cranmer family of Alert Bay.

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  • Gloria Cranmer Webster

    as Narrator
Directing Dennis Wheeler Director
Production Tom Shandel Producer
Editing Sally Paterson Editor
Crew Tony Westman Cinematography
Sound Zale Dalen Sound Recordist
Sound Richard Patton Sound Recordist
Camera Richard Patton Second Unit Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Enda Bratt Wardrobe Coordinator
Sound Joe Mock Original Music Composer

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