Ray Bandar, a life with skulls
Subtitle: a film
By: by Beth Cataldo with sound track by John Zorn ; [produced by] Hummingbird Multimedia
Contributors: Hummingbird Multimedia
Edition: [Revised version].
Publisher: Hummingbird Multimedia
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [California]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Comparative Anatomy; Biography; Skull; Bones; Collectors and collecting; Naturalists
Other titles: Life with skulls
Description: Raymond Bandar started collecting skulls as an art student in the 1950s. Skulls are "masterpieces of sculpture." You can tell so much about the life of an animal by looking at its skull--how big it is, how old, what it ate, what its day-to-day habits were.
Notes: Title from container.

Original version distributed privately in 2005.

"The story begins on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, when a number of marine mammal bodies appear, skull-less, on the beach.  The director, Beth Cataldo, is intrigued by this mystery and, in pursuit of an answer, finds a local legend who has been collecting skulls for more than 60 years.  He's been called Dr. Bones and Reptile Ray ... The movie investigates Bandar's history as a skull collector ..."--Container.

DVD.