The Hunters

Duration: 76

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Harvard University Film Study Ctr

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Depicts the life and culture of primitive bushmen living in the Kalahari Desert of Africa. Follows a hunting party composed of four bushmen as they track and kill a giraffe. Identifies the weapons and hunting methods used. Illustrates the village life of the bushmen and portrays the sharing of results of the hunt. Reveals the bare subsistance level of life experienced by the bushmen., A study of the life and culture of the African bushmen as portrayed through the experiences of four aborigines and the giraffe which they hunt on the Kalahari Desert.