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INTEREST - Travelogue. Shots of jungle, river, waterfalls and sea in Fiji (40); thatched huts built on stilts over a ...
This film is a record of two trips by the director to the Torres Strait Islands, and to Papua in ...
INTEREST. Fishing with dynamite in the Solomon Islands.
Main title and intertitle (10). A European throws dynamite into a river, it ...
ACTUALITY. Dance performed by men and women of the Koita tribe, Papua. In the background a boy tries to shin ...
ACTUALITY. Lakwaharu men and women from Tupuselei village, Papua, perform a dance (67ft).
Note: Almost certainly filmed at the "durbar" of ...
ACTUALITY. Record of maginogo dancing by men and women of the Koita tribe. In the background a boy attempts to ...
ACTUALITY. Titles (2). LS of native dancers, four groups of two men dance backwards and forwards from each other and ...
Reception at Rotorua, June 1901. Prime Minister Seddon welcomes the Duke and Duchess of York.
Opening with a crowd scene at ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar ...
INTEREST. Footage shot by A.C. Haddon during the 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait, showing a series of native ...
ACTUALITY. The Melbourne Cup horse race.
The race course seen from the middle distance behind a group of spectators at the ...
ACTUALITY. Ranjitsinhji, practising at the nets prior to the First Test between England and Australia at Sydney, 13-17 December 1897. ...
ACTUALITY. A train arrives in a station.
A train arrives at Flemington station, Melbourne, coming from the distance left to right, ...