[Home Movies CHM HUB 41 South Seas and Japan 2]

Home movie vacation footage of the South Seas and Japan


This home movie from the 1940s features footage of a tropical island and its inhabitants. The movie includes footage of men climbing palm trees to collect coconuts, people moving smoking boulders in a pit, and crowd watching the event. There is also footage of a steam ship by the coastline, men rowing canoes, and a dense crowd watching native islanders dance in grass skirts. The footage also includes shots of mountainous islands, boats on the sea, and an underwater scene of a man in goggles. The movie also shows people visiting a village, seeing flying foxes, and touring an old prison in Noumea, New Caledonia.


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Home movie vacation footage of the South Seas and Japan

This home movie from the 1940s features footage of a tropical island and its inhabitants. The movie includes footage of men climbing palm trees to collect coconuts, people moving smoking boulders in a pit, and crowd watching the event. There is also footage of a steam ship by the coastline, men rowing canoes, and a dense crowd watching native islanders dance in grass skirts. The footage also includes shots of mountainous islands, boats on the sea, and an underwater scene of a man in goggles. The movie also shows people visiting a village, seeing flying foxes, and touring an old prison in Noumea, New Caledonia.

Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

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