This article investigate the film Rituaes e festas Bororo (1917), produced by Luiz Thomaz Reis, during his first film-version. He created the Photographic and Cinema Department of Rondon Commission in 1912 being its principal filmmaker and photographer. The analysis focus the cinema narrative and overlap it with another photograms published like a photographic narrative in Índios do Brasil (1946) by Rondon. This film together with another similar images of Rondon Commission build a "selvage" sign for Brazilian Indians image. Today its is considered not only a pioneer film but one of the most important documents in ethnographic film history.
photography; ethnography film; anthropology; Bororo; Luiz Thomaz Reis
