Phantom India. Louis Malle, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Eclipse Series 32: The Documentaries of Louis Malle DVD set, released 2007. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 363 minutes.
Summary: Natural resolution of a cow carcass; minor fishing action.
- Episode 1: The Impossible Camera (52 minutes)
Vultures circle and gather, then we see a dead cow at 18:21. The cow’s carcass is picked at by vultures and wild dogs through 23:39.
- Episode 2: Things Seen in Madras (51 minutes
- Episode 3: The Indians and the Sacred (52 minutes)
- Episode 4: Dream and Reality (51 minutes)
Fishermen with their haul, 31:50-32:50. Baskets of small dead fish and shrimp, no butchering or death throes.
- Episode 5: A Look at Castes (52 minutes)
- Episode 6: On the Fringes of Indian Society (51 minutes)
- Episode 7: Bombay (52 minutes)