Treibjagd in der Südsee (Fishing Hunt in the South Sea). Werner Buhre, 1940.
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Edition screened: Included on Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #61, Tabu, released 2013. Silent with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 12 minutes.
Summary: Hunting fish with spears.
Details: Men spear fish with long tridents, 0:10:40 through conclusion of the film.
Most of the film shows the fascinating, albeit staged, initial stages of a fish hunt in which women and children beat the water to drive fish in a particular direction, and then use nets to keep them from returning. This cohesive sequence is a mostly-unused block of film made for Murnau’s Tabu, and appears in greatly shortened form at the beginning of that feature title.