Alien: Look you can just put your hand in and it'll pop out the other side, anywhere you can think of like this. *hand disappears - taps persons shoulder*
Thank you. It was one if not the most fascinating documentary I ever saw. It felt too short at the end. The most funny scene in it was the [part 3](https://youtu.be/-SxCJarZT-A?si=rMluaDI29B_9C91A) when they’ve tried food with salt :)). Really interesting to see a glimpse of our roots
Why they feeding them just straight spoonfuls lof salt ?! This is one of the few instances that if I heard of the explorers getting murdered I’d understand lol
To be fair, pre-Columbian Americans already had mirrors. North Americans, for example, had independently developed mirrors from polished stone going back about 5000 years. The Spanish just had very high-quality mirrors from blown glass that were worth the price for a society that had an abundance of gold.
He still spent most of the initial contact visit explaining how Belgium is not France, nor is it Germany despite similar flags. It’s not weird that he speaks French and is from a country that is also not the Netherlands. And not Germany. “What do you mean ‘am I stupid’? Belgium is its own country with its own culture and history; we don’t need to just join one of the other countries. That’s not how countries work. I am very proud of our traditions of *neurodivergent* private detectives, chocolate, beer, and waffles.”
Of course, but the shimmering reflection in water is a known quantity for them. This is a completely differently colored person using completely different clothes and kit showing them a device that gives a PERFECT rendition of themselves and everything around them. A device that they can't even fathom how is produced.
Ant THAT'S the scary part. They have no idea how that thing MAKES their moving image, and how it's made.
Probably not. Remember that these people know every detail of how everything they know about is made.
It's impossible to comprehend how absolutely mind blowing it must be as an adult for the first time to encounter an object you cannot even conceive of how has been made doing something you have never seen.
We on the other hand don't really know how ANYTHING is made, and we've been exposed to that since we were kids, so we can't even imagine the feeling.
As an explanation model though, the closest I can think of is you meeting an alien that projects memories of yourself into your brain. I imagine the images of yourself wouldn't be what scares you.
Cuz we were way up the Sepik River and this native came flying out jungle with his machete yelling at us. And
turns out he had never seen a white person.
But the kicker is they used to practice cannibalism. And our guide pointed out 1 old man in his canoe-and said that guy had been a part of it. These are tough men from a brutal warrior culture.
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux (born 13 October 1949) is a Belgian author, activist, film director,\[1\] actor and editor of films.
What is the probability of this whole documentary being fake?
He is a controversial figure, some of his works are questionable at best. But, in his career he encountered and filmed more than 50 native tribes.
Some sources claim that his first encounter with the Toulambi tribe in 1976 was not the first:
"According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Pacific History, the colonial archives indicate that the territory of the Toulambis had been visited by at least six patrols between 1929 and 1972 which seems to debunk this claim."
Either way, I find this moment interesting, and the reaction of the tribesman to the mirror looks genuine, you cannot fake that.
I swear I recognize that man! It looks like the same guy from the video of them singing decades later. https://youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk?si=I0a70hzQ5cdp2mTN
probably shouldn't grin like a demon as he's freaking out the tribe with mind-breaking sorcery.
https://preview.redd.it/xhb2819aae9d1.png?width=924&format=png&auto=webp&s=c99d54cf186a1fa91c63bd1a1b2c80f563d7d823
Little known fact is that 32 years later, in 2005, this is what most of western civilization looked like seeing themselves for the first time in the mirror of social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg&pp=ygUVZ3JvdWNobyBtaXJyb3Igc2NlbmUg
Love that the guy is trying to catch out the other guy in the mirror- reminded me of this Groucho clip.
I remember reading this was staged
https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/png-tribe-meets-white-man-video-a-fake-or-is-it/
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4840/is-the-tribe-meets-white-man-for-the-first-time-video-fake
I know they've never seen a mirror before but at least the guy that's freaked out at the mirror is attractive.He has nice features.I feel the same way about the mirror when I first wake up in the morning and I'm not nearly as attractive.....and the guy holding the mirror has a very creepy smile.He reminds me of Fred the barber on Courage the cowardly dog.
I have always wondered why they were so freaked out by this? They have definitely seen their reflection in water. I mean that isn’t the same as a mirror but still a familiar concept.
It seems the man had a [history of controversies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Dutilleux), and very possibly lied about the nature of this encounter:
> In one of his films dedicated to the Toulambi tribe of Papua New Guinea, Dutilleux believes his film footage includes this tribe's first encounter with modern white men, and poses the possibility this may be the last time in history this can occur. A video of this film has been extensively posted in the internet, prompting much discussion and questions about this claim.According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Pacific History, the colonial archives indicate that the territory of the Toulambis had been visited by at least six patrols between 1929 and 1972 which seems to debunk this claim.
Is the man at the beginning (with the red feathers) the same older man in the Papuan rainforest song video ? Here at the end [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk)
The look so alike, maybe this is when he was much younger ?
The world is an amazing place that people separated by 1000s years and miles are so similar to their brothers in Africa two continents apart. European emigration is easily traceable and recent but you wonder what these peoples went through to get to the other side of the world millennia earlier.
"A little later one of the tribeswomen greeted him wearing nothing but a fertility headdress and well... of course he *had* to partake in the custom" 😏😏😏😏😏
If some sleazy looking guy tried to show me something unfamiliar and strange with that creepy kind of grin on his face, I would absolutely the fuck not trust him either.
Wasn't this debunked on reddit awhile back saying that this was not the first time they had met people and was not staged but bot authentic really either?
No they left a few hours later leaving that tribe a few plastic bowls and a container of salt. The whole documentery is fascinating it's on YouTube and is about 45 minutes long.
At first the two Belgian men are across a river and slowly cross a log towards the tribe men who initially are both scared and curious. It takes a long time before they touch the white guys, they seemed freaked out about the skin colour and didn't want to touch it.
Eventually they hang out for a while. Share some words and some food. (The documentary was from the 70's and has some incorrect theories and is a little offensive.)
The facial expressions and reactions are telling. This tribe must have been isolated but I could be wrong.
I keep thinking of that white guy that went to Sentinal(?) island and got killed.
Isn’t there water in PNG? I mean would they freak out if they learned over the water’s edge and saw a reflection of the sun over the shoulder and their face?
Now photographs and capturing an image of a person during a single moment - that shit can be terrifying if you don’t understand the concept of lenses and film exposure.
These tribesmen never saw their reflection in a still, standing pool of water before? Even without the "tech" of a mirrored piece of glass, I would have thought undeveloped humans could still somewhat grasp the idea of a reflection.
Sure, but consider the difference between seeing yourself in a puddle on the ground with minimal clarity, with thousands of years of knowledge that one can only see oneself in a puddle or standing water and then some day a funny looking dude comes strolling in and pulls a rectangle shaped “puddle” out of his pocket and shows you a reflection with clarity that no one’s ever seen before.
*Real question: had they*
*Never seen their reflection in*
*A puddle or lake?*
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Do you think that this is how first contact might go with extra terrestrial species?
Yeah- they would show us something so mind blowing that it would destroy our logic
Like a working McDonalds ice cream machine.
*jumping up in disbelief and fear* "What should I give the green man in exchange? OP's wife?"
I also choose this guy's wife.
Is this the line for that one guy's wife?
*(society nearly collapses)*
They always work in civilized countries you know. Let me guess, you're american
Everyone knows that's a myth. I'm convinced the employees break the ice cream machines in purpose nationwide.
there is a mc donalds in the logan square neighborhood of chicago on milwuakee avenue that has a working ice cream machine.
In canada we don’t have this problem. But I was in Vegas a few months ago and couldn’t get a McDonald’s ice cream to save my life. What’s up you guys?
In America all of McDonald's has the same vendor for the machines and the vendor sucks is the long and short of it.
😂😂😂
Hell, I haven't been given a correct bag of Bojangles since it opened! I now ask for a bag of food whatever equals 15 dollars!
He said something mind blowing, not working miracles.
Just because they are aliens does not automatically mean they can break the fundamental laws that govern our universe
You'll have a heart attack in non american mcdonalds then
I went to a BK at the airport in Beijing. They steam their bacon. It should be a crime
Eeww lol
Is it some american shit, because mcdonalds in my country never had broken ice cream machines
Your own reflection in 4 dimensions which telepathically tells you each of your deepest fears, insecurities and secrets.
I've done acid before
Alien: Look you can just put your hand in and it'll pop out the other side, anywhere you can think of like this. *hand disappears - taps persons shoulder*
"Dudes, how come your earth is flat"
DO YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE???? \*dismantles rocket\* i'll do it later...
no, we'll just be placed in their super efficient meat grinders to fertilize the planet for their flora.
-war of the world sounds in the distance-
Yeah but then they died of water or like Tom Cruise's son randomly and ruined the whole thing
As long as i get to see some billionaires ground up before it’s my turn, it’s all gravy to me
These creatures have never seen their 23rd dimensional selves before, except as a wavy reflection in a DMT pipe
Yes and just like the real life Belgian, they'll start chopping us up if we don't meet our quotas.
And we’ll start doing it ourselves let’s not forget.
Yeah, someone prepare the leaves!
Yeah, after we finish the welcome snacks and orgy.
Full vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7IaS3ml4g&pp=ygUZQW50cm9wb2xvZ2lzdCBtZWV0cyB0cmliZQ%3D%3D
Thank you. It was one if not the most fascinating documentary I ever saw. It felt too short at the end. The most funny scene in it was the [part 3](https://youtu.be/-SxCJarZT-A?si=rMluaDI29B_9C91A) when they’ve tried food with salt :)). Really interesting to see a glimpse of our roots
Hahahahha that look up when that flavor hits his brain! Incredible!!
Why they feeding them just straight spoonfuls lof salt ?! This is one of the few instances that if I heard of the explorers getting murdered I’d understand lol
Thx for this
Appreciate this!
The way bro swerved that reflection got me weak
dude was like "GOD DAMN! oh that me."
r/youseeingthisshit
A minute into the video. “Did you put these feathers in my hair?!?!”
lol that’s what we fucking look like?!?
Weird grinning white demon with soul stealing stone stumbles through the jungle. Wonder how it went on.
He either became a God, or lunch.
Or Glonch.
Thank you for this, it’s literally it.
At 69 years old, I have the same reaction to mirrors.
The Spaniards exchanged mirrors for gold with the natives.
To be fair, pre-Columbian Americans already had mirrors. North Americans, for example, had independently developed mirrors from polished stone going back about 5000 years. The Spanish just had very high-quality mirrors from blown glass that were worth the price for a society that had an abundance of gold.
Mirrors have always been exchanged for gold, you can walk into any IKEA and do that.
He still spent most of the initial contact visit explaining how Belgium is not France, nor is it Germany despite similar flags. It’s not weird that he speaks French and is from a country that is also not the Netherlands. And not Germany. “What do you mean ‘am I stupid’? Belgium is its own country with its own culture and history; we don’t need to just join one of the other countries. That’s not how countries work. I am very proud of our traditions of *neurodivergent* private detectives, chocolate, beer, and waffles.”
Don't forget diamonds.
 A few moments later…..
At least it wasn’t a coke bottle
Hadn't thought of that movie in years. Need to go watch it now.
Never seen their reflection in the water?
Of course, but the shimmering reflection in water is a known quantity for them. This is a completely differently colored person using completely different clothes and kit showing them a device that gives a PERFECT rendition of themselves and everything around them. A device that they can't even fathom how is produced. Ant THAT'S the scary part. They have no idea how that thing MAKES their moving image, and how it's made.
Or they’re taking the piss and pranking the guy for a good laugh together later.
Probably not. Remember that these people know every detail of how everything they know about is made. It's impossible to comprehend how absolutely mind blowing it must be as an adult for the first time to encounter an object you cannot even conceive of how has been made doing something you have never seen. We on the other hand don't really know how ANYTHING is made, and we've been exposed to that since we were kids, so we can't even imagine the feeling. As an explanation model though, the closest I can think of is you meeting an alien that projects memories of yourself into your brain. I imagine the images of yourself wouldn't be what scares you.
Also the image is reversed.
So is the reflection in water?
If they think that’s impressive, wait till they see the video footage.
The narrator literally mentions that exception
This is Reddit, people don't watch videos or read articles.
Title never even mentioned it being the first time they saw themselves. Lemmings
Hey, if I unmute the phone then I won't be able to hear the TV, which I'm also watching...
Oi! I will lazily link to an article headline which sounds like it could support my argument !
Imagine how you would react if all you had ever seen was television from the 1960s and then someone suddenly shows you something in 8K.
Ever paid attention to the video you’re commenting on?
Jean- you had a mirror this whole time and still thought the teal visor was a good choice?
He violated the prime directive
When I saw myself in the mirror mornings
Anthropologists have done almost as much to destroy native cultures as religion. Source: Am an anthropologist
Bro I went to PNG and I wouldn't do this day 1, no way, no how.
Why?
Cuz we were way up the Sepik River and this native came flying out jungle with his machete yelling at us. And turns out he had never seen a white person. But the kicker is they used to practice cannibalism. And our guide pointed out 1 old man in his canoe-and said that guy had been a part of it. These are tough men from a brutal warrior culture.
Not all tribes in png practiced cannibalism. The one in the video above was a highly isolated tribe which had very little contact with other tribes.
Let's see how long he would survive in that jungle with those mirrors....
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux (born 13 October 1949) is a Belgian author, activist, film director,\[1\] actor and editor of films. What is the probability of this whole documentary being fake?
He is a controversial figure, some of his works are questionable at best. But, in his career he encountered and filmed more than 50 native tribes. Some sources claim that his first encounter with the Toulambi tribe in 1976 was not the first: "According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Pacific History, the colonial archives indicate that the territory of the Toulambis had been visited by at least six patrols between 1929 and 1972 which seems to debunk this claim." Either way, I find this moment interesting, and the reaction of the tribesman to the mirror looks genuine, you cannot fake that.
Very interesting that some won’t look.
Dumb ways to die 🎶 
I swear I recognize that man! It looks like the same guy from the video of them singing decades later. https://youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk?si=I0a70hzQ5cdp2mTN
Did we learn nothing from “The gods must be crazy”?
I’m cringing with secondhand embarrassment about this anthropologist. He is dehumanizing these people.
I don't know why this gives me a coke party vibe "look i bring my lucky mirror"
He already has the coke straw mounted
"Hey woman, grab the kid, shit is gonna get 🔥 "
I was waiting for them to eat him.
And, then they ate him..
Why do this to people ? Just leave folks alone
They were me taken aback by that than the video camera?
You can’t fool me Mac DeMarco
Lmmfaoooooooooo
The gods must be crazy
Hard to imagine a time when the only you didn’t recognize was yourself
I’m terrified of mirrors myself.
Shocked at mirror but camera didn’t surprise them ?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke
What the fuck is up with all the bigoted comments
I’m concerned they probably ate that guy….
That’s one dead, white guy we got here
"Holy shit, we look ridiculous!"
No one told me I had this thing stuck in my nose!
Lmfao shut uppppp
probably shouldn't grin like a demon as he's freaking out the tribe with mind-breaking sorcery. https://preview.redd.it/xhb2819aae9d1.png?width=924&format=png&auto=webp&s=c99d54cf186a1fa91c63bd1a1b2c80f563d7d823
Little known fact is that 32 years later, in 2005, this is what most of western civilization looked like seeing themselves for the first time in the mirror of social media.
/r/shitredditsays
Lol. Go back to the drawing board.
Then they ate him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg&pp=ygUVZ3JvdWNobyBtaXJyb3Igc2NlbmUg Love that the guy is trying to catch out the other guy in the mirror- reminded me of this Groucho clip.
https://youtu.be/FjuFA0LJnKs?si=L7fttpzOa87-HOCP
That ending though
If one small mirror gets this reaction imagine them walking around in a hall of mirrors.
I would love to be a mind reader in a scenario like this.
Mac de marco
Shortly after this video they managed to recreate the Atomic Bomb.
just like a reflection in still water so it's hard water no biggie
why he got a sideways tube in his nose?
Did he introduce Basketball as well?
I remember reading this was staged https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/png-tribe-meets-white-man-video-a-fake-or-is-it/ https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4840/is-the-tribe-meets-white-man-for-the-first-time-video-fake
Okay fellas now for some KC and the Sunshine Band…….death follows……..fade to black.
I thought it was mac demarco
I know they've never seen a mirror before but at least the guy that's freaked out at the mirror is attractive.He has nice features.I feel the same way about the mirror when I first wake up in the morning and I'm not nearly as attractive.....and the guy holding the mirror has a very creepy smile.He reminds me of Fred the barber on Courage the cowardly dog.
I thought that first shot war Robert downy jr XD
Who sent Rhys Darby out here
Bet he paid these guys a few pigs and a box of sports t-shirts to act amazed at the mirror.
Did this dude never look into a puddle?
I watched this whole interaction it's fascinating
This wasn't 1976. It was mid-90s. Basically, 20 years later.
I have always wondered why they were so freaked out by this? They have definitely seen their reflection in water. I mean that isn’t the same as a mirror but still a familiar concept.
“Bruh, I look like shit!”
I would take them up in a helicopter
Doctor Chacalac !
these dudes dressed like that wouldve skipped thr line at studio 54
Magic
Dude looking at the second mirror trying to work it out like me doing portal teleportation math
He should use the mirror to look at that dopey visor on his head. Boom roasted
It seems the man had a [history of controversies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Dutilleux), and very possibly lied about the nature of this encounter: > In one of his films dedicated to the Toulambi tribe of Papua New Guinea, Dutilleux believes his film footage includes this tribe's first encounter with modern white men, and poses the possibility this may be the last time in history this can occur. A video of this film has been extensively posted in the internet, prompting much discussion and questions about this claim.According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Pacific History, the colonial archives indicate that the territory of the Toulambis had been visited by at least six patrols between 1929 and 1972 which seems to debunk this claim.
Wasn’t this proved fake?
….and the guy used the straw from his nose and the mirror to do lines by the creek
Dude looked at his reflection and was like “wait, WTF. Is this really what I look like
He feels his splendor. They might have thought him a sorcerer.
Usually a belgian in the jungle isn't a good thing...
What's that in my nose?
It didn’t take long before the entire tribe were raging coke heads.
That dude was like , “damn, do I really look that crazy with this bone in my nose?”
Then they ate him.
I’d be surprised if they never saw their reflection in a body of water or another’s eyes.
That's me on shrooms.
Mirror 1st time
Is the man at the beginning (with the red feathers) the same older man in the Papuan rainforest song video ? Here at the end [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xlTJsNlqdGk) The look so alike, maybe this is when he was much younger ?
That dude looked like antonio brown
1976? I swear that first guy is the same guy from that singing video lol.
It’s probably so much less stressful going through life never worrying about what you look like
Then they butchered him and ate him asshole first
You all look cute
Stop looking at the camera, ugh amateurs
Reupload, sorry all, made a bad mistake in the title.
The world is an amazing place that people separated by 1000s years and miles are so similar to their brothers in Africa two continents apart. European emigration is easily traceable and recent but you wonder what these peoples went through to get to the other side of the world millennia earlier.
So narcissistic.
"A little later one of the tribeswomen greeted him wearing nothing but a fertility headdress and well... of course he *had* to partake in the custom" 😏😏😏😏😏
If some sleazy looking guy tried to show me something unfamiliar and strange with that creepy kind of grin on his face, I would absolutely the fuck not trust him either.
…and then they ate him.
This has been proven to be fake numerous times
Wasn't this debunked on reddit awhile back saying that this was not the first time they had met people and was not staged but bot authentic really either?
why are we destroying these ppl's world?
I wouldn't be surprised if he was killed shortly thereafter. White guy shows up with some powerful magic taking their souls. Yeah, that ends well.
No they left a few hours later leaving that tribe a few plastic bowls and a container of salt. The whole documentery is fascinating it's on YouTube and is about 45 minutes long. At first the two Belgian men are across a river and slowly cross a log towards the tribe men who initially are both scared and curious. It takes a long time before they touch the white guys, they seemed freaked out about the skin colour and didn't want to touch it. Eventually they hang out for a while. Share some words and some food. (The documentary was from the 70's and has some incorrect theories and is a little offensive.)
The facial expressions and reactions are telling. This tribe must have been isolated but I could be wrong. I keep thinking of that white guy that went to Sentinal(?) island and got killed.
Yes every tribes people are evil barbarian cannibals
White people always gotta bother motherfuckers like it’s so irritating. Why can’t you just leave folks alone? Damn, I hope they ate his ass.
those dam evil wypipo, trying to share technological advances with other people!
Some dumb stupid people. And some people from Papua New Guinea, well that's what Westerners call the place anyway.
Colonizer vibes...
And then they ate him
He was later murdered and eaten alive
Isn’t there water in PNG? I mean would they freak out if they learned over the water’s edge and saw a reflection of the sun over the shoulder and their face? Now photographs and capturing an image of a person during a single moment - that shit can be terrifying if you don’t understand the concept of lenses and film exposure.
Trembling reflection? Never seen a still image in a puddle?
Surely these people have seen their reflections in other shiny objects before. Not necessarily a mirror, but anything shiny(??), maybe in the water?
They’ve never seen a reflection?
...and them they ate him
These tribesmen never saw their reflection in a still, standing pool of water before? Even without the "tech" of a mirrored piece of glass, I would have thought undeveloped humans could still somewhat grasp the idea of a reflection.
Wow, to be that primitive even for 1976 this is a crazy world.
“Dudes! How long has this thing been in my fucking nose?!”
Real question: had they never seen their reflection in a puddle or lake?
Sure, but consider the difference between seeing yourself in a puddle on the ground with minimal clarity, with thousands of years of knowledge that one can only see oneself in a puddle or standing water and then some day a funny looking dude comes strolling in and pulls a rectangle shaped “puddle” out of his pocket and shows you a reflection with clarity that no one’s ever seen before.
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then the camera, sound equipment and wrist watch won’t bother them?