Return to the South Pacific
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.25
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (69 minutes, black-and-white silent; 2,500 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965
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 documents travel in the South Pacific. Locales include: Waikiki, Maui, and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii; Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora in French Polynesia; Fiji in Solomon Islands; Vila, New Hebrides (Vanuatu); Guadalcanal, British Solomon Island; Savo Island; and Lae, Goroka, Western Highlands, and Waghi Valley and Mount Hagen in New Guinea (Papua New Guinea). Activities include dancing in Tahiti, a Kava ceremony and a meke in Fiji, and wedding preparations and celebration in New Guinea. Film includes 1942 footage shot by Soule's photo unit (1stMARDIV, USMC) in 1942 showing initial landing on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and Navy footage shot in 1942 and 1962.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Tourism ; Marriage customs and rites g ; Rites and ceremonies ; Islands ; Military bases