Posted on 24/06/08
Researchers restore long-lost 1913 epic
VANCOUVER -- Eight years before Nanook of the North, there was In the Land of the Head Hunters.Filmed mostly in and around Fort Rupert, B.C., in 1913 by Edward S. Curtis, Head Hunters was a landmark feature in that it not only used indigenous people to play indigenous characters, but it also told an aboriginal story - as opposed to using native caricatures to play the bad guys in a cowboys-and-Indians scenario.
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