The expedition had been an unconditional success, and Thor Heyerdahl and his crew had demonstrated that South American peoples could in fact have journeyed to the islands of the South Pacific by balsa raft. The whole film is black and white, shot on a single 16mm camera.Ī small amount of color footage of Kon-Tiki does exist. After 101 days at sea the Kon-Tiki ran aground on a coral reef by the Raroia atoll in Polynesia. Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, with commentary written by Heyerdahl and translated. The movie has an introduction explaining Heyerdahl's theory, then shows diagrams and images explaining the building of the raft and its launch from Peru. The Academy Film Archive preserved Kon-Tiki in 2013. The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards. Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.
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