Educational195135 min640×360

Kon-Tiki (Motion picture)

Heyerdahl, Thor; Lesser (Irving) Enterprises, New York

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35 mm. version released in 1951 by RKO Radio Pictures. 16 mm. and 35 mm. versions distributed in 1964 by Irving Lesser Enterprises

Presents a documentary record of a 48-day raft journey across the Pacific Ocean made by Thor Heyerdahl and five Scandinavian scientists in 1947. Explains that the raft used was a reproduction of the type of craft believed to have been used by Peruvians who journey from South America to Polynesia centuries ago

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Internet Archive, in Educational films
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Credit
Heyerdahl, Thor; Lesser (Irving) Enterprises, New York
Language
English
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