Location: | New Guinea |
Subject: | Documentary |
Length: | 12 minutes |
Format: | 16mm |
Hue: | B&W |
Year Released: | 1933 |
Series: | |
Director: | Michael Leahy |
Producer: | |
Distributor: | |
Library Code: | NFSA |
Description: | Includes footage of the first airstrip at Minj; warriors with their best spears; girl running to fetch her father; looking toward Mt. Hagen; lighting smoke flares to assist in plane landing; girls wearing pig noses on wrist bands; Morobe boy in white laplap; New Guinean police; people from Mt. Hagen; dollar bird wings on men's headdresses; American gardens made with digging sticks; people stamping out airstrip; terrified spectators at airstrip; base camp; bringing sugarcane from miles around; goods exchange with locals; congregation of onlookers being harangued by the orator, Kowra. Silent. |
Record No: | 1075 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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