In 1963 the general American public was introduced
to the Mondo film by the success of the release of "Mondo
Cane". Though mondo type pseudo documentary films existed
before this one, it took the success of Mondo Cane to bring these
bizzaro treasures into mainstream American theatres! "Mondo
Cane" was made up of sensational film footage collected by
two Italian filmmakers and former news photographers Gualtiero Jacopetti
and Franco Prosperi. Their film footage gave us a glimpse of another
World here on Earth! With its success a flood of knock off Mondo
films popped up - all filled with sensational footage from all 4
corners of the Earth! One of these was "Mondo Magic".
This Mondo documentary focused on the secret rights, rituals
and customs found to be taboo Surrounding
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