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TAGGED: sociology
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First Contact: Gramophone

Michael Leahy’s photographs and footage show the highlanders surrounding and looking at a gramophone (with a 1930s recording of ‘Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ playing on the soundtrack).

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A Film for Discussion: Mother and daughter

Young office worker Jeni (Jeni Thornley) is having a conversation with her mother in the kitchen while they wash the dishes together. Summary by Pat Fiske.

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A Film for Discussion: Awakening

A man and a woman in a car are having a conversation. Jeni (Jeni Thornley), the young office worker, is troubled by what one of her co-workers has discussed with her that day.

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A Film for Discussion: Women and Work

A Film for Discussion opens with a montage of still images and live action footage of women working, followed by ad images and clips from old movies, and women yelling and screaming at

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Black Harvest: Grieving

At a big gathering, people are stunned and grieving. Madang, one of Joe’s main adversaries regarding the plantations, has been killed.

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Black Harvest: Warfare and its consequences

In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man.

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Black Harvest: Realities

At a meeting of the Ganiga tribe, Joe and his ally, tribal elder Popina Mai, speak about the plan for Ganiga to work on the plantation.

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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: Debate

At a community meeting, a young man debates with Joe Leahy about the profit split of their Kaugum coffee plantation. Leahy explains how he is the one taking the risk with the bank loan.

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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: ‘Bride-price’

At a village meeting, two highlanders are bartering a 'bride-price’. On offer are pigs rather than money.

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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: Soot-blackened arrows

At a village gathering, the father of a wounded Ganiga man, shot by a Gaimelka man, has a stand-off with a Lutheran pastor who had been trying to calm things down.