Down Under
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1995.11.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jones, R. Bryson
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content: R. Bryson Jones travel films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (28 minutes, black-and-white silent; 772 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1939
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: Incomplete edited film used by an amateur travel-lecturer documents travel in the Pacific especially New Zealand and Hawaii. Scenes show Maori marae (enclosure) near Rotorua, New Zealand (women washing clothes, children bathing, and woman dancing with Haka poi(?) (spinning rattles)) and hotsprings at Rotorua (steam rising from springs, bubbling mud, small geysers, steam vents, and man demonstrating power of steam vent by throwing packing boxes onto vent and watching steam blow them off). In unidentified tropical harbor, seaplane lands and takes off and on rocky shore a buddhist shrine. Possibly in Hawaii scenes of fishing with large net. In Hawaii scenes include military parade with trucks carrying troops and mortars; the Kodak Hula Show (girls dancing in grass skirts and mumus, Hawaiians playing musical accompaniment, and man pounding poi); Japanese in Hawaii, some in traditional dress; and tourists surfing, swimming and paddling outrigger canoes at Wakiki with Diamond Head in the background).