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Can fourteen of 16mm film by Oskar Speck
Film taken by Oskar Speck during his kayak voyage from Germany to Australia. This record is an exact rendition of the content of this object. As a result the museum would like to advise this work may contain themes, subjects and terminology that could cause offence to some viewers. The content does not reflect the views or attitudes held by the museum. The museum would also like to advise visitors this record may contain the names of, and artwork by, deceased Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.

Can fourteen of 16mm film by Oskar Speck

Photographer (1907 - 1993)
Date1930s
Object numberANMS0547[014]
NameFilm
MediumCellulose acetate reel of film
Copyright© Australian National Maritime Museum
ClassificationsAudio visual material
Credit LineANMM Collection Nancy Jean Steele Bequest
DescriptionFilm contains shots of dancing, swimming, weaving and fish in an aquarium, Papua New Guinea. 00:01 Large crowds, dancing in a clockwise moving circle. Various shots. 02:20 Shots of village and huts. 02:40 Youths dancing in a circle with their bows and arrows. 03:30 Children playing soccer (or similar ball game). 03:59 Four people standing on a rocky river inlet. 04:15 Men cooking and preparing food, including dismembering the sea turtle. 06:26 Shots of the sea turtle failing on the sand. 07:15 Children playing in the water at the beach. 07:50 Close up of young girl swimming, with large white earrings. 07:58 More shots of children playing in the water, including with a small catamaran. Walking back to camp. 08:52 (Under exposed/too dark to discern details). 09:00 Two women talking in the shade. 09:36 Woman working with long grasses. 10:15 Woman weaving and working with palm fronds. 10:52 People preparing food, with thatched hut in background. 11:22 Overhead shot of bay, river and village. 11:55 Fishes in an aquarium. 13:20 (Upside down shot. Can’t discern subject clearly). 15:24 Market place. People are seen wearing several types of clothes – shirts, sarongs, long skirts, to loin cloths and arm bands. 15:40 Dancing in a circle. Various shots. 17:34 Carrying fishing nets and canoes onto shore. 17:52 Men is white shirts and turban like head wraps. 18:02 Old woman with a conical what and white shirt, in the background are boats pulled upon the shore. 18:10 Shot of palm trees (and a temple? Ruins?) 18:40 Rice fields. Various shots. 20:10 Building a hut, frame already erected. 20:51 Dentist (?) – a man cleaning another’s teeth. 21:23 More shots of the rice fields. 21:23 Fishing boats and catamarans on the bay. Panning shot to the right, lots of palm trees on the shore. 22:23 Catamaran going down river with two men aboard. 22:42 End of film.