Can six of 16mm film by Oskar Speck

Photographer Oskar Speck (1907 - 1993)

Date1930s

Object numberANMS0547[006]

NameFilm

MediumCellulose acetate reel of film

ClassificationsAudio visual material

Credit LineANMM Collection Nancy Jean Steele Bequest

Terms

DescriptionFilm shows people around the village of huts on stilts by the river, swimming and boogie boarding in the water, fishing and then dancing, Papua New Guinea. 00:01 Children and women using the step ladders to enter the huts on the stilts. 00:30 Youth using an axe to hollow out a log, making a canoe. 00:57 Two adults and a child paddling a small canoe down a river. Mangroves are in the background. 01:07 Dancers, moving in two lines around a large circle. A large thatched hut is in the background. 01:32 Two men and a child are playing small drums on their hips, jumping up and down to the beat. The dancers follow them in a circular motion. 02:27 Close up of child, with several shell necklaces around their neck. 02:38 Close up of man, with feathered(?) head ornament, worn during the dancing. 02:45 Close up of three women, all wearing shell necklaces and nose piercings 02:50 Three children boogie boarding into shore. 03:20 Mountains on the other side of the bay. 03:28 Larger fishing canoe coming into the beach. The men unload it was it comes into shore. Several men pull it onto shore, out of the water. 04:45 (Repeat) Two adults and a child paddling a small canoe downstream. 04:54 Woman standing by the edge of the river. 05:20 Close up shots of several women. 06:13 Pig eating from a partially hollowed out canoe. 06:46 Woman working with fibres. 07:55 Close up of a woman, wearing shell necklaces. 08:17 Two children using bows and arrows to fish. 09:18 Group of people sitting on a verandah of the huts on stilts. 09:50 Close up of a man on the verandah, working on a basket/fishing net (Weaving? Sewing?). 10:27 Shot of two women with nose piercings, wearing feathered arm bands. 10:39 Large group of dancers, moving in a large circular motion, as led by the child and two men playing the drums at the front. Wide and close up shots of the dancing. 16:22 Close ups of child, then man and finally of women with nose piercings. 16:55 End of film segment. Content is very similar, indeed a repeat of parts of, ANMS0547[001]_2.