Trance and Dance in Bali (1951)

Director	Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Producer	New York University Film Library
Contributors
Length	20
B&W/Color	Black and White
UO Library Catalog description:	The Balinese ceremonial dance drama in which the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon–the death dealing and the life protecting–is played out to the accompaniment of comic interludes and violent trance seizures. Balinese music forms a background for the narration.
Call #	FILM Mb61
Genre	Documentary, Folkloric, Ethnographic
Rare	No
Online	No
Copyright status	Public Domain
Physical condition	Fair
Oregon-related	No

Notes:

Trance and Dance in Bali is a short documentary film by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson that details their visits to Bali during the 1930’s, although the film was not released until 1951. In 1999 the film was deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.