Reel No. 4: Oceania (1940)

Category: Travelogue

Length: 43:50

Film ID	F16-0691
Film Description	Edited travelogue with narrative titles Locations: Ceylon Seychelles Sumatra Bali Shotlist Edited travelogue with narrative titles Home movie travelogue footage; Winter to Spring 1940 Title "Crossing the Equator" Title "Neptunus Rex" Costumed King Neptune on his throne with Queen and lady attendants in grass skirts, on ship deck. A pantomime play, story is unclear. Men in costumes, some bathrobes, some grass skirts hazing three women, dumping in to swimming pool. Are these the losers? It is very unclear. Putting shaving cream or soap on faces and dumping into pool. Looks unpleasant for the victims. Title: Pago Pago, American Samoa Street scenes, men in long wrappers, a marketplace. Men riding by wearing kufi style hats A topless woman dancing (tourism performance) together with banjo and guitar music Views of the beach children. European tourists in the group Outrigger canoes More tourism performance dance. Views of the tourists from the side of the dancers A woman taking an outdoor shower tries to shield herself from the camera. Women performing dance for tourists. Dances with boat paddles. Tourists attempting to learn. The cruise shop on the bay A provocative still photograph of a bare breasted woman, followed by a cartoon depicting a tourist looking through binoculars the sign says "Would you like to see SAMOA?..Ah who wouldn't like..."cut off Title: Apia British Samoa. Long boats in the water. A tree. A shipwreck. Houses on the lawn Children making a hand gesture to the camera, uncertain of meaning Title: Tahiti View of water's edge Tourists Policeman on bike Leaning palms by beach. Distant mountains Small dam Title: Rugged Marquesas; Where we could not land at Hiva-oa View of mountainous coastline Shipboard Pelicans Rocks of a coastline with 1930s white painted graffiti eg. Nourmahal 1932 etc. latest date is 1938 Tourist women attempt to hula dance on deck Title: Balboa; Canal zone. Scenes of the Panama canal from afar Title: Three toed sloth Three toed sloth with a lady and then just hanging out Lizard Toucan Boats at the docks. Man carrying live birds as fowl Melons in cards Title: Canal zone. Large stucco houses, American style. Rows of palms. American youth carrying books, possibly near a school. Blooming tree Title: Bogota Columbia Large parrots Flowery carriages in front of a church, a street car passing with Estrella Roja sign. (Part of the funeral entourage.) Funeral hearse with glass encasement in front of church Pan shot of small town zocalo below mountains. Women washing clothes in the river Neoclassical official buildings in Bogota Street scenes Marketplace, people buying vegetables. Some indigenous people at the marketplace Bullfighting. Matadors enter the ring. Entire bullfight from beginning to end.Dragging the dead bull all around the ring at the end. A second bullfight. Airport Sign."Umca Medellin--Capital de Antioquilla then directional signs: Santiago Chile- Dos Dias. Nueva York--42 horas" etc A mid-sized propeller plane coming in to land. Pink or fuschia footage of US Navy ship. US Navy sailors coming in by launch boat. Panama canal and locks working. Funicular rail car climbing at steep angle. Canal Title: Haiti Boys and young men near the boat diving for coins tossed by tourists on board. Marketplace Lady is sidesaddle on a donkey Side saddle lady passes an impressive capital building Attempting to start a car Wharf Large boat Sunset Title: And this is what we found at home April 13th 1940 Philadelphia estate garden in snow
Video Category	Travelogue
Film Creator	Mrs. J. Shipley Dixon
Topics	Touring, Tourism, Tourism performance, Tahiti, American Samoa, Pago Pago, Apia, Samoa, Upolu, Marquesas Islands, Balboa, Panama, Zoos, Sloths, Marketplaces, Bogota, Columbia, Funeral rites, Bullfighting, Haiti

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