Introduced by Lucien Taylor Lucien Taylor is editor of Visual Anthropology Review and an instructor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. In 1950, Edgar Monsanto Queeny returned from equatorial Sudan with 80,000 feet of exposed footage. From this mass of images, Queeny, the chairman of the Monsanto Chemical company, fashioned a fifty-minute color film about the "savage" Latuko tribe. The documentary, endowed with "On-the-Spot Native Sound," describes the ceremonial life of the tribe, shaping the undifferentiated events of daily life into a conveniently coherent narrative. The voice-over, classic commentary from the high colonial period, casts the action into the realm of the darkly primitive. The Latuko, unencumbered by our civilized advancements, are relegated to being prehistoric relics overlooked by time. We shudder at their savagery, grateful for our own adorned civility. Exhibited under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, Latuko was nevertheless banned in several states. Most unacceptable was the nudity, both male and female. Though it may have been intriguing to many viewers seeking the more exotic corners of the globe, the anthropological bent of the film was apparently not enough to shroud the immodesty of "primitive man."