CIRCLING THE PACIFIC

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Year
1955
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F8989
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Year
1955
Reference
F8989
Media type
Moving image
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Duration
0:30:00
Credits
Photography: Bathie Stuart

Speed boat in harbour. Shots of city from a ship. People sunning themselves on the deck of a ship. Coastal views from ship. Woman fastening flowers in her hair. Women dance on the deck of the ship for the passengers, while a sailor hands around leis. Dramatic skyscape, with tower in foreground. A temple, tourists in the foreground, and by windy coast. Shot of blowhole, and beach views. Children and baby play in and near pool. Rear of ship, looking out to sea. Captain lifts boy up to look over the side, and poses with him and several other children for the camera. Woman poses for camera, sailors pose for camera. Chefs at buffet table, with food. Chef poses with plate of food. Passengers queue up at the buffet, and eat on deck. Poolside on the ship, scenes of passengers dining. People dressed up as Neptune: one reads from a scroll, and the other two throw children into the pool. A boy ‘s hair is covered with suds and combed by the performers. Passengers sitting on deck. Man makes announcement by the pool. Children dive in for a swimming race. Men’s swimming race. Children play badminton. Men sitting on a pole having a fight with bags. They fall in. They have a second round and fall in again. Women on pole fighting. Ship in ocean. Aerial views of [coastal city Sydney]. The Sydney Harbour Bridge. Suburban rooftops. Views of the beach, Harbour Bridge in distance. Sydney street scene - bus stop, park, and sequence filmed from car.
2:36:55 Break in film
2:37:00 Mother and small girl lean out window. Harbour views: wharves, boats docked, cranes. People on deck, looking over rail. People playing quoits on deck. Views of waves from boat. Market scenes - stalls of bananas, vegetables, [pineapples], sticks, wooden boats.
2:39:48 (sequence repeated from basis no: 5176) People walking [up drive to official residence]. Cars drive up. People walk down steps. Band master leads military brass band [Fijian]. Dome structure [monument]. Boy sits beside it. Woman outside thatched house. Boys outside large house, possibly a school. Group of boys pose for camera. Colourful flora.
Boat leaves wharf on which people stand, including a Fijian policeman. Views from the boat of the coast. Woman walks towards boiling spring. Woman on beach. Ship in ocean, with smaller boat. Car on ferry, with passengers. Boatman poses for camera. Palm trees, flowers. A truck pulls up beside the beach. Sign, “The Only Motor Road in the Southern Hemisphere Crossing Meridian - Fiji”. Coastal views. Men standing in the water. Women and children outside hut beating large flat piece of material. Woman holding flower. Palm trees, garden, colourful flowers. People swimming in a lagoon. Woman walks toward camera, and poses for the camera. Coastal view, hut in foreground. Cars driving through palm forest
Sunset. Sign, “Provincial School Northern Bucalevu”. Schoolboys run towards camera, one and then two pose for the camera.
Small plane, “Fiji Airways” takes off runway, man brings steps up to door.
Ends.