PERSONAL RECORD. TINGEY, ALBERT. TROPICAL ISLES OF THE PACIFIC

Scenes of holiday in Fiji. Titles: ‘Tropical Isles of the Pacific’, ‘Produced & Photographed by A.E. Tingey’, ‘A ‘Star’ Film’. Views of buildings, street, roadside row of palm trees. Village with traditional buildings. Flowering plants and hilly landscape. Man ploughing field with oxen. Workers planting a field [rice plantation]. Flowers in field, close up view of hand holding purple flower stem.

Sign: ‘Deuba Beach Hotel’. [Pacific Harbour, Fiji]. Man on beach. Man and woman visiting pineapple plantation, pineapples growing in field. Group of local people gathered around truck. Policeman in kiosk directing traffic in middle of street. Ice cream vendor with ‘Frostee Ice Cream’ chiller cart. Building parapet: ‘Grand Pacific Hotel’; wide views of building, hotel gardens. Flowers in bowl. Man standing in front of large fanning palm. Close up of flower.

Flying boat at jetty. Passengers walking along jetty to plane and embarking. Plane: TEAL ZK-AMN Short S.45A Solent 4 flying boat. Aerial views. Hostess handing out food from basket on flight, passengers eating a meal at a table. Sunset taken from on board plane - wing silhouetted in shot. ‘Finish’.