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Nauru 1973 (2008)

★ — Nauru 1973 (2008)

Greg Tuer's four-minute short is less a film in any conventional sense and more an archival curiosity, a reel of home movie footage shot on the Pacific island nation of Nauru in 1973 and later uploaded to YouTube, where it found an audience it was never intended for. Nauru itself provides an unusual backdrop, a tiny phosphate-rich island that was, in the early 1970s, briefly one of the wealthiest nations per capita on earth (the phosphate boom would peak and then collapse, leaving the country in considerable economic difficulty by the 1990s). Tuer is credited as director here in the loosest possible sense, the footage almost certainly shot on Super 8 or similar consumer film stock of the era.

A-Z World Movie Tour Nauru https://youtu.be/PE7k_hV-mv0?si=Ra6E2BS4LM_cI207 This is a home movie. It's 4 minutes. No spoken word. Just what appears to be 8mm shots of an island 50 years ago. There's something somewhat voyeuristic about seeing a families private home movies. It's even weirder when 55k have already viewed it too. Definitely an oddity on this list. I'll need to watch another really.

Rating: ★ | Year: 2008 | Watched: 2025-07-27

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