Location: | Papua New Guinea |
Subject: | Colonial administration; patrol officers |
Length: | 47 minutes |
Format: | 1/2-inch VHS; 16mm |
Hue: | B&W |
Year Released: | 1962 |
Series: | |
Director: | j Morris, Ian Dunlop, Dennis Hill |
Producer: | R Maslyn Williams |
Distributor: | Film Australia |
Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 4914; NFVLS; NSWSL |
Description: | Also known as Peoples of Papua New Guinea. A four-part film that shows the role of patrol officers in bringing full statehood to the territories. Part 1: At work in remote areas of the Sepik. Part 2: In New Britain the Tolai people are reluctant to begin farming the land for cocoa because of the ancient myths. Part 3: Wilfred Moy is a Papuan medical assistant at a rural health center; difficulties he and his family experienced being Papuans among Tolai people. Part 4: John Akinai is a coffee grower in Goroka, who is befriended by a patrol officer and then becomes a minister in Parliament. |
Record No: | 255 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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