Vanishing Veddahs

Year Published: 1957

Creator: GMB Productions/McGraw-Hill

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Records the customs and ceremonies of a near-prehistoric tribe in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) that faced extinction when the film was made in 1957.  Shows wedding with 12-year-old bride, poisoning fish by adding fruit extract to water, and making fire by wood-screw. The filmmaking Batholomeusz family descends from an old Dutch burger settler family in Ceylon