Bathurst Island Issue Title Antipodes Calling 1938

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Part of ANTIPODES CALLING issue.

Missionaries at Bathurst Island, Australia.

Various shots of palm trees and beach of tropical island. We see young boys in loin cloths climbing up trees. Narrator says of island: "it is inhabited by a people whose instincts are not far removed from...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42421
Sort Number:
NSP 136
Time in/Out:
01:01:03:00 / 01:03:06:00
Canister:
NSP 136
Film ID:
1262.02
Issue Date:
03/11/1938

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