In 1988 Sir Denis Forman wrote: "Ever since I had seen [the film] Grass (1925), I had seized the idea that, in film, we had a means of documenting and capturing a picture of the tribal societies that were bound soon to disappear; so by 1970 I was ready to support wholeheartedly an enterprise that reflected a genuine interest in anthropology, coupled with the professional abilities to make films." That led to the creation of the series Disappearing World, which ran between 1972 and 1995 and broadcast more than 50 films on prime-time ITV. It not only became the most important contribution to visual anthropology across the world, but brought stories of non-western society into British homes.
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