Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 11, 2017 7:56:18 GMT
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) is a notable distinction in the history of classic film.
Filmed on location on the Polynesian Island Bora Bora, in the South Pacific the film was a collaboration between Robert J. Flaherty and F.W. Murnau , they wrote the story and together formed a production company to complete the ambitious project.
Classed as a docufiction. The silent film is split into two chapters. The first, called "Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on the remote and traditional South Seas island, paradise until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods. The second chapter is titled "Paradise Lost" and depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation.
A beautifully filmed lyrical tragedy that combines elements of factual and narrative filmmaking, it is an exotic adventure, a poetic Polynesian love story
Cinematographer Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on this film.
Tabu... has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This was his last film of director F. W. Murnau, he died in hospital after an automobile accident on March 11, 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York City.
Filmed on location on the Polynesian Island Bora Bora, in the South Pacific the film was a collaboration between Robert J. Flaherty and F.W. Murnau , they wrote the story and together formed a production company to complete the ambitious project.
Classed as a docufiction. The silent film is split into two chapters. The first, called "Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on the remote and traditional South Seas island, paradise until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods. The second chapter is titled "Paradise Lost" and depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation.
A beautifully filmed lyrical tragedy that combines elements of factual and narrative filmmaking, it is an exotic adventure, a poetic Polynesian love story
Cinematographer Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on this film.
Tabu... has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This was his last film of director F. W. Murnau, he died in hospital after an automobile accident on March 11, 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York City.