Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

by F W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty, Anne Chevalier

$750 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, a sound engineer, and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of docufiction. The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story Turia, based on a South Sea legend Flaherty had heard while working on W.S. Van Dyke's White Shadows in the South

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