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Papua and New Guinea achieved independence together as Papua New Guinea in 1975.
Film of a Cheshire Home in Port Moresby, New Guinea.
Mission work in Papua New Guinea.
Conditions faced by a team of explorers looking for oil. Principal locations Persian Gulf, Canada, Papua, Zanzibar, Trinidad.
Outlines the history of the London Missionary Society Papua mission, with reference to the missionary James Chalmers, and the work ...
A history of the battles, fought predominantly by Australian troops, to block the Japanese conquest of New Guinea ...
William Courtenay flew from Port Moresby in New Guinea, to Morotai in the Moluccas Islands, from where the convoy for ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include:
GENERAL EISENHOWER TAKES OVER NEW COMMAND SNOWFALL HINDERS EIGHTH ARMY ASSEMBLY LINE ...
Air-to-ground shots over the Coral Sea, flying from Brisbane in Australia to Ward's airstrip, Port Moresby, New Guinea, April 1944. ...
(In colour) March 1943. A C-47 lands on airfield (probably Port Darwin). Royal Australian Navy sailors around aircraft. CU on ...
I. "Pacific Battlefront": A tribute to the endurance of Australian troops engaged in jungle warfare in New Guinea, and to ...
Film of action at Milne Bay, which was an almost completely Australian operation and one that dealt a ...
Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and ...
This film is a record of two trips by the director to the Torres Strait Islands, and to Papua in ...
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 ...