Bhutan: A Strange Survival (1982) (no video link)
Title
Bhutan: A Strange Survival (1982) (no video link)
Subject
Bhutan--Description and travel
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
Description
Content description from Worldcat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/brain-program-2-vision-and-movement/oclc/20061404):
A portrait of the Kingdom of Bhutan, a little known independent country in the Himalayas. The film was first shown on National Public Television in 1982 and shows very rare black and white footage of the 1930s and 40s and 50s that show its history and traditions. The film also portrayed the lives of ordinary people of Bhutan and the film makers Dale Djerassi and Isabel Maxwell were Co-Directors and Co-Producers and Co-Cinematographers of the film. The late Michael Aris, husband of Aung San Suu Khi of Burma, and expert on Bhutan who had tutored the then King of Bhutan himself, was Adviser on the film and took part in it also with a main interview.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. Bhutan: A Strange Survival. This documentary examines the lives of the one million common people of Bhutan, an isolated country in the eastern Himalayas. Available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Article about Bhutan (many pages stapled together) from September 1974 Smithsonian magazine, vol. 5, no. 6.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
A portrait of the Kingdom of Bhutan, a little known independent country in the Himalayas. The film was first shown on National Public Television in 1982 and shows very rare black and white footage of the 1930s and 40s and 50s that show its history and traditions. The film also portrayed the lives of ordinary people of Bhutan and the film makers Dale Djerassi and Isabel Maxwell were Co-Directors and Co-Producers and Co-Cinematographers of the film. The late Michael Aris, husband of Aung San Suu Khi of Burma, and expert on Bhutan who had tutored the then King of Bhutan himself, was Adviser on the film and took part in it also with a main interview.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. Bhutan: A Strange Survival. This documentary examines the lives of the one million common people of Bhutan, an isolated country in the eastern Himalayas. Available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Article about Bhutan (many pages stapled together) from September 1974 Smithsonian magazine, vol. 5, no. 6.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Isabel Maxwell (director, producer, and writer)
Dale Djerassi (producer and writer)
Charles Percy (host)
Ludovic Kennedy (narrator)
Publisher
Djerassi Films
Date
1982
Citation
“Bhutan: A Strange Survival (1982) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 12, 2026, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/450.