Can fourteen of 16mm film by Oskar Speck
Photographer
Oskar Speck
(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.