“PRIMITIVE MAN IN A MODERN WORLD“ 1972 MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE FILM MAYA, INCA CIVILIZATIONS XD49964

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website “Primitive Man in a Modern World” () is a color, Christian film by the Moody Institute of Science (MIS) Educational Film Division. MIS was founded in 1945 by the Moody Bible Institute and Irwin A. Moon as an evangelical group that used scientific methods to promote certain religious viewpoints to viewers. This film uses the fall of great civilizations such as the Incas, Mayas, Aztecs and Romans as a case study to warn against moral decay and its ability to cause even the mightiest of civilizations to collapse. Composed of footage of Mayan ruins, Machu Picchu, and from the villages of Inca and Mayan descendants, the film tries to paint these people in a “primitive” light who have fallen off course from the glory days of their ancestors. When it was released, the film was roundly condemned in the academic press, with a reviewer in “American Anthropologist“ stating that in her opinion,“... this film presents a racist, ethnocentrically biased opinion that smacks of sensational yellow journalistic have never seen any single item of ‘educational trash’ to equal this film. It combines psychologically questionable scare tactics with an outdated mid-nineteenth century premise, inaccuracies of omission and commission, with a smattering of fact to give an aura of scientific accuracy. And all of this to ‘prove’ an untenable, ridiculous, ethnocentric interpretation of cultural adaptation.” Aerial view African mud houses (0:24). Montage customs, medicinal practices, agriculture remote tribes in Africa, Central and South America (0:44-4:07). Mayan baby head flattening ritual (1:13). Women preparing Chicha fermented corn drink (1:45). Woman rom Surma tribe of Ethiopia with lip plugs/ plates (2:07). Aerial view from cockpit of plane, uninhabited mountainous area (2:21). Map of Central America highlighting Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, British Honduras, Yucatan Peninsula (4:08). Chiapas, Mexico: Lacandon women and children cross stream in jungle (4:16). Lacandon village, men and women (4:28). Mayan ruin (5:10). Aerial view of Tikal National Park, Mayan ruins peeking above trees (5:31). Chacmool statue, Temple of Warriors, Chichen Itza (6:10). El Caracol (Mayan observatory), Chichen Itza (6:38). Close-up stones engraved with detailed pictures (6:52). The Mayan Zero, Mayan math table - engraved numbers (7:10). Mayan calendar (7:38). Brightly colored illustrations on interior of Bonampak Mayan temple - depictions of human sacrifice, captives (7:55). Chacmool statue, montage of idols and godlike figures (8:30). Painting of Mayan human sacrifice ceremony (8:49). Painting of Cortés riding into Yucatan, fighting between Mayans and Spanish explorers (8:58). El Palacio, Palenque archaeological site (9:10). Two Lacandon men smoke something similar to cigar (9:25). San Juan Chamula Carnival, Chamula men wear cowboy hats, women gathered around dance circle, music performance (9:42). Men in traditional clothing of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (10:11). Drunks at festival (10:45). Men perform Mayan Fire Dance (11:00). View from cockpit of snow-covered Andes Mountains, Peru as plane crosses equator into South America (11:46). Quechua farmers (12:04). Quechua chewing coca (12:17). Quechua woman weaves basket (12:48). Cusco (Cuzco) formerly realm of the Inca (12:58). Map of South America, Quito, Lima, Cuzco, Royal Road of the Inca (13:24). llamas (13:44). Close-up Incan ruin stones built into city buildings (13:55). Massive boulders of Sacsayhuamán (14:05). Center of Sacsayhuamán Citadel, reservoir (14:33). Skulls found at ancient Peruvian burial grounds, evidence of ancient brain surgery (14:58). Ancient bronze cranial surgery tools on tray (15:26). Machu Picchu, terraced fields, stone flume water system, palaces, temples, stairways (16:00-18:20). Huayna Picchu Mountain (18:15). Painting of Inca emperor carried on chair (18:26). More footage of Machu Picchu, narrator details story of Aclla Cuna “Virgins of the Sun” (19:00). Quechua village (19:32). Painting Architect Ignacio Marquina’s famous 1951 reconstruction of Tenochtitlan city center (19:46). Aztec sun stone, Aztec sculpture work, other artifacts in museum display cases (19:51). Tenochtitlan ruins (20:16). Totonac sculpture (20:22). Olmec Stone Head (20:25). Great Sphinx of Giza (Egypt). Acropolis of Athens (20:44). Latin inscription, Roman ruins (20:51). Colosseum, Rome (21:06). Aerial view of Brooklyn Bridge, New York City skyline (21:24). Footage of youth rioters in a major city; a car is overturned (22:04). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit