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Lardner, Susan | September 27, 1986 issue

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The article focuses on the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the five-day run of documentary films held at the American Museum of Natural History from September 14 to 18, 1986. The festival originated ten years ago as a celebration of Mead's association with the museum, and has since become a popular annual event. This year the selection committee considered the merits of 450 films in order to choose the final sixty-three, which included, for historical and sentimental reasons, a couple of Bateson/Mead oldies, "Trance and Dance in Bali" and "Childhood Rivalry in Bali" and "New Guinea", filmed between 1936 and 1938. Most of the situations in the films are real in a different sense from the nonfictitiousness of the characters.

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FILM festivals; MOTION picture industry; TRANCE & Dance in Bali (Film); CHILDHOOD Rivalry in Bali (Film); DOCUMENTARY films; MUSEUMS
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