Location: | Papua New Guinea |
Subject: | Telecommunications; social change |
Length: | 19 minutes |
Format: | 16mm |
Hue: | Color |
Year Released: | 1976 |
Series: | |
Director: | Philip Robertson |
Producer: | Malcolm Otton; Film Australia for Overseas Telephones and Cables (Aust) and PNG Department of Public Utilities |
Distributor: | |
Library Code: | NFVLS; NSWSL |
Description: | Shows the completion of an undersea telecommunications link between Papua New Guinea, Australia and the rest of the world in 1976. The film suggests that the result of this technology will be to persuade the people to surrender their traditions and customs and develop a more sophisticated lifestyle. |
Record No: | 312 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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