The World About Us S1969E14 - The Noble Savage

"I am as free as nature first made man
'Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the Noble Savage ran"

Since the great European discoveries began 500 years ago, the Primitive peoples of the world have found themselves in collision with the white man. Tonight's documentary tells the romantic and then tragic tale of this collision in South America and Australia, with the camera penetrating deep into the jungles of the Amazon and Arnhemland.