| Description | Canister is labelled 'From the Royal Society. BCINA: to be collected'. The footage was likely used to compile a clip for the British and Commonwealth International Newsfilm Agency.
16mm film
Colour
Mute
0.00. Scientist wading in river/ pool. Entering a cave.
0.50. Scientist scrambling down rock face.
1.31. Fire. Ants.
1.50. Samples of worms.
2.10. Local people walking through the forest.
2.20. The ship.
3.14. Wading.
3.40. Local people swinging from a tree on the shore and dropping into the water.
4.14. Scientist with a microscope, carrying out field work.
5.10. The base camp in the rain. A raised platform with broad leaves woven to serve as a roof.
5.50. Women and girls dancing in grass skirts and floral headbands.
8.30. A stormy sea.
9.1.5 Children gathered, likely at San Cristobal, Wainoni Mission.
10.00. Local homes (?). (Footage is dark).
10.15. A captured lizard. Collected insects.
10.40. Locals walk through the forest.
10.40. Insect samples in a net.
11.18. A small rowing boat with scientists within.
11.40. Sampling from the shallows of the ocean.
12.00. Coral, the shallows.
13:00. Sampling from the shallows. Local men lay a cane grid over the water.
14:20. Small fish in shallow water, the small boat and the ship.
14:40. Local man on the ship wielding a shield and spear while crouching.
15:00. A microscope on the ship, a scientist with a silt sample.
15:18. A scientist snorkeling.
16:20. A scientist working with local men in the shallows, examining samples and taking notes.
17:13. On ship. A sample from the water in a clear plastic bag.
19:00. Rough seas.
19:50. A building, a jeep.
20:00. A young local man smoking a pipe.
20:15. Local people trek through the forest carrying equipment.
20:30. Local people gather at a village.
21:20. Local people cross the river.
21 min 52. |