This film is a record of two trips by the director to the Torres Strait Islands, and to Papua in 1920-21 and 1922-23.

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 ...

Mission work in Papua New Guinea.

(In colour) March 1943. A C-47 lands on airfield (probably Port Darwin). Royal Australian Navy sailors around aircraft. CU on fuselage, 'Guinea Airways - Royal Mail'. With view from the aircraft cockpit, the C-47 takes off. Various air-to-ground ...

William Courtenay flew from Port Moresby in New Guinea, to Morotai in the Moluccas Islands, from where the convoy for the invasion of Tarakan departed. He went via Finschhafen, the Schouten Islands and Noemfor Island, in Geelvink Bay off the north- ...

Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and the current life of the mission.