Kon-Tiki (1950 film)

Kon-Tiki
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Directed by	Thor Heyerdahl
Produced by	Olle Nordemar
Written by	Thor Heyerdahl
Starring	Thor Heyerdahl
Production company	Artfilm
Distributed by	Sandrew
Release date	13 January 1950 (1950-01-13) (Sweden)^[1] 13 February 1950 (1950-02-13) (Norway)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	Norway, Sweden
Language	Norwegian

Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian-Swedish 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. 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. The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar.

The Academy Film Archive preserved Kon-Tiki in 2013.^[2]

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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. Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, with commentary written by Heyerdahl and translated. The whole film is black and white, shot on a single 16mm camera.

A small amount of color footage of Kon-Tiki does exist.^[3]

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^ "Kon-Tiki". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
^ The Kon-Tiki expedition-color film

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Kon-Tiki on IMDb

v t e Thor Heyerdahl
Projects	Kon-Tiki Jakten på Odin
Books written	The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas Aku-Aku Fatu Hiva
Films directed	Kon-Tiki (1950) Galapagos (1955) Ra (1972)
Related topics	Heyerdahl Award Kon-Tiki Museum Pyramids of Güímar LI2B Kon-Tiki (2012)

v t e The Kon-Tiki Expedition of 1947
Crewmembers	Thor Heyerdahl Erik Hesselberg Bengt Danielsson Knut Haugland Torstein Raaby Herman Watzinger
Documentation	Kon-Tiki (1950 film) The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas Kon-Tiki Museum
Related articles	Kon-Tiki (2012 film)

v t e Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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