Tahiti, Marquesas, Galapagos

Duration: 13 min

Genre: Geography

Creator: Color Wonders of World

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: Silent

Description: Beautiful harbor at Papeete. Harvesting and preparing cocoanuts for copra. Dugout canoes lashed together to carry in coral from reefs for road building. Natives dance to wooden drums. Rock-bound harbors in the Marquesas (Hiva-Oa and Fatu-Hiva). Pelicans welcome us in the Galapagos, no humans here but much wild life. Homeward bound through Panama Canal. Folk dances by crew in colorful Swedish native costume.

Metadata Source:Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942