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  • Ivan Polunin (Dr) Fonds

    Fonds/Collection

  • 1950-1969

    Record Date

  • 00:54:57

    Recorded Duration

  • English

    Recording Language

  • 2008000699

    Accession No.

  • Audiovisual

    Type

  • Mini DV

    Format

  • Access permitted

    Conditions Governing Access

  • Use and reproduction require written permission from depositing agency/donor. Processing of reproduction request may require 7 working days.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction


  • Synopsis :

    1. Couple out at sea on a sailing boat, boat capsizes, they try to save their things and turn boat back without success, villages on a motorboat rescues them and help to tow their sailing boat to shore, villagers crowd around the shore to watch in excitement, foreign woman distributes chocolates to the children and villager brings the couple to his home
    2. Children play on trees while men go fishing and plucking coconuts, couple drink from coconut
    3. Foreign man explores ways with locals to fix his sailing boat, foreign woman puts on a 'sarong' after a bath
    4. Peaceful village at sunset and sunrise, foreign man wakes to an affectionate bear cub, he jumps into sea to play with children, foreign woman wakes up to a massage by a villager
    5. Children play with boats made from leaves and coconut husks, villagers help foreign man to fortify his sailing boat, foreign woman sewing motif onto sail, foreign man has a sailing competition with the locals in his newly modified boat, he celebrates with villagers, couple leave the village in local clothes and with bear cub
    6. Jungle natives bathing at a river and hunting for food, dancing in the forest, weaving baskets with plant stems, making a fire with bamboo poles and making tools
    7. Men go fishing with nets

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