PEDIATRICS Vol. 37 No. 1 January 1966, pp. 195-234
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IV. RESEARCH FILMS FOR THE STUDY OF CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE PATTERNS IN PRIMITIVE CULTURES

D. C. Gajdusek, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

16 mm Kodak Kodachrome 1 and Tri-X, 24 frs./sec., narrated sound, 1280 ft., 35 min.

This is a chronological assembly of all the non-clinical footage taken during the first kuru field study in 1957. The greater portion of the film consists of sequences taken on two kuru epidemiological patrols from the New Guinea Highlands to the Papuan coast. The first, August 21 to September 17, starts at the YAR part of the PAWAIAN linguistic group near the Papua-New Guinea border and the confluence of the Yani and Lamari Rivers to form the Subu River. It then progresses northward through the Pa'iti FORE and GIMI regions en route to the Lufa Patrol Post. Two women with very early kuru are shown at the southernmost FORE village of Pa'iti, and an adult and a child achondroplastic dwarf are seen in the GIMI. There is a KEIAGANA dance staged in daylight for the camera at the village of Henegaru, near Taramo, showing elaborate dance sequences usually performed at night.

The second portion of the film includes all sequences taken on the second kuru epidemiological patrol through the AWA, KUKUKUKU, YAR PAWAIAN, and KORIKI regions from the Okapa Patrol Post to the Papuan coast, September 26 to November 10. There are long sequences showing the wary, worried, proud behavior of the KUKUKUKU when they are met by the large government patrol during this early stage of contact. Many of them are seen for only the first, second, or third time by white man. A few sequences show women and children somewhat more relaxed.