Footage of Samoa
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1997.7.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Field, William O. (William Osgood), 1904-
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content: William O. Field films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (42 minutes, color silent; 1475 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963
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: Footage documents travel in newly independent state of Western Samoa.  Includes aerial views of island, scenes of the harbor, loading and unloading freight at harborside, man cutting bananas and crating them for shipping, men fishing with nets in harbor.  Shows women washing clothes and spinning, children clowning for the camera, man pounding poi(?).  Film also has scenes of volcanoes, people walking over an old lava flow, big surf, beaches, a rugby march, street activity in the capital of Apia, and a visit with the president of Western Samoa and his wife.