WAIMA DANCE, KOVEA

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 21288).

Synopsis

INTEREST. Titles (1). LS of native women dancers in two lines of four each. They dance back and forth from each other trailing sticks on the ground. In the background a boy attempts to shin up a pole (21ft).

Note: almost certainly filmed at the "Durbar" of the Central Division tribes, organised by Capt. francis Rickman Barton at Port Moresby in 1904.

Note: titles carry the Elge (Gaumont) trademark.

 

Titles

  • WAIMA DANCE, KOVEA
 

Technical Data

Year:
1904
Running Time:
.3 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
21 ft
 

Production Credits