Can fourteen of 16mm film by Oskar Speck

Photographer Oskar Speck (1907 - 1993)

Date1930s

Object numberANMS0547[014]

NameFilm

MediumCellulose acetate reel of film 1- Acetate (measured by NFSA)

ClassificationsAudio visual material

Credit LineANMM Collection Nancy Jean Steele Bequest

Terms

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.