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The Film 'Only One New York'

In 1963 Jan Yoors and the French film director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau made the film Only One New York. Gaisseau won the first Oscar for a documentary in 1961 with the film Le Ciel et la Boue. The film documents a Franco-Dutch expedition through Dutch New Guinea. It focuses on tribes of cannibals.

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Only One New York portrays New York as an ethnic patchwork at the beginning of the 1960s. It zooms in on the life and customs of different ethnic communities. Jan Yoors published a book of the same name in 1965. It includes photos that he took during the project.   

 

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