Mondo Cane -- the proto-shockumentary

By at 9:19 am Sunday, Dec 14

Excellent NYT article about proto-shockumentary Mondo Cane and it spawn by Boing Boing pal Matt Haber.
..."Mondo Cane" presented bizarre, humorous, frightening and downright dubious dispatches from the farthest corners of the world: Italians in the village of Calabria slicing themselves with glass in celebration of Good Friday, the French painter Yves Klein painting with his naked "human paintbrushes," a woman in New Guinea suckling a pig and swanky New Yorkers dining on insects in a restaurant. As seen by Mr. Jacopetti, the world was a truly strange and frightening place.
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