Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

30 mins | Oct. 4, 1978

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

30 mins | Oct. 4, 1978

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.
Producers Comité du film Éthnographique, The American Museum of Natural History
Original title Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Directors Jean Rouch
Writers

Cast

Margaret Mead

as Herself