Margaret Mead: Portrait by a Friend [digital video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Rouch, Jean, author, film director.

de Brigard, Emilie, producer.

Mead, Margaret, contributor.

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years. (Fellow filmmaker John Marshall was the sound recordist.)

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Title from title frames.

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Personal Subject:

Mead, Margaret.

Subject Term:

Filmmaking.

Natural history museums.

Cultural change and history.

Prehistory.

Women in workforce.