of temporal unity. The apparent continuity stems from the post-synchronized sound, and in fact all the sound in the film is post-synched. Heider, himself, admits in his book Ethnographic Film, that some of the battle films were edited out of sequence, intercut with a scene of the women at the salt pool, which was filmed at a different time than the battle sequences. See also List of American films of 1963 References Bibliography Ruby, Jay. Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2000. Heider, Karl. Ethnographic Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. Kirsch, Stuart. "Ethnographic Representation and the Politics of Violence in West Papua". Critique of Anthropology 30(1):3–22, 2010. External links Dead Birds Dead Birds essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 , pages 613-614 1963 films United States National Film Registry films Anthropology documentary films Ethnofiction films 1963 documentary films New Guinea American docufiction films 1960s English-language films 1960s American films