Belles of the South Seas
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.3.3
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Morren, George E. B.
label: Collection Film editor
content: Castle, Eugene W.
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content: George Morren films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (15 minutes, black-and-white silent; 350 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced by Castle Films and distributed for "The World Parade" series was filmed in Tahiti; South Island, New Zealand; Pago Pago, American Somoa; and Papua and Kalabahai (Papua New Guinea). Footage includes: street scenes (Tahiti); Maori men, Maori women cooking food using woven bags plunged into hot springs, and wood carving (New Zealand); dwellings and the meke meke dance with male and female seated and standing dancers (Fiji); governor's mansion which is the former home of Robert Louis Stevenson, coconut gathering, tattoos, display of grass skirt, making palm basket, and siva-siva dance (American Samoa); and children on a "toy" outrigger, woman rocking baby in net bag, examples of body tattoo, ceremonial headdresses, nose adornment, and devil dance (Papua and Kalabahai). Footage includes scenic shots of each locale.