PORT MORESBY: DANCE OF MEN OF THE ARMED NATIVE CONSTABULARY FROM THE MAMARE DISTRICT

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 11953).

Synopsis

ACTUALITY. Titles (2). LS of native dancers, four groups of two men dance backwards and forwards from each other and then dance in a circle. They carry long thin drums which they beat with a stick. A group of natives also look on. (79). Dancers then squat and proceed to bounce up and down on their haunches (92). They then form two rows of four and dance (107ft).

Note: Almost certainly filmed at the "durbar" of the Central Division tribes of Papua New Guinea organised by Capt. Francis Rickman Barton at Port Moresby in 1904.

Note: Titles carry the Elge (Gaumont) trademark.

 

Titles

  • PORT MORESBY: DANCE OF MEN OF THE ARMED NATIVE CONSTABULARY FROM THE MAMARE DISTRICT
 

Technical Data

Year:
1904
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
107 ft
 

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