Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek 10: Ontspanning in Nieuw-Guinea
New Guinea Chronicle 10
Objectcode
FI/1200/153
Information film about sport and play of the Dutch in Hollandia (Jayapura).There are sailing- and water ski races on Sentani Lake. Playing children. Running races outside town. Kapauku dancers performing folk-dancing, the Dutch flag is being carried along. The public looks on.
Contents
Description (source: Beeldengeluid.nl): 00.20 Image: Marina in Hollandia Harbour, where young sailors are preparing mast and boom on sailing boats at anchor, they hoist the sails, or are just loafing with their feet in the water. 00.10 Signal flags bearing the letters Y and P are being hoisted on the mast. Boy paddles his sailing boat backwards into open water. The public is watching the start. 00.30 Girl tightens foresail and main sail from the bottom of the boat. A couple of girls round a buoy. Instructions from the shore with a big megaphone. A small boat sailing before the wind. A boat belonging to the free class rounds a buoy. 01.03 National flag flanked by both letter flags. Competitors testing their home-made match speedboats. Participator kneels down into the narrow cockpit. The engines are adjusted and started. 01.34 Four boats tearing along a pegged out course on Sentani Lake. The tournament leader follows the boats with a pair of binoculars, registering the time with stopwatches. 02.09 Boat passes the finish, while black-and-white chequered finish flag goes down and the boat runs easy with a sharp turn. 02.22 Young spectators in deck-chairs. 02.28 Water skier starts backside first, makes a couple of turns and kicks away his left ski. 02.55 Seen on the tanned back: a water skier starting a slalom. 03.02 A couple of girls are relishing fruits. Boy and girl starting, who then do some acrobatics on ski's, watched by the public from the shore. The two fans outwards and back to the stern-wave, getting back to the landing stage, where they go underwater. 04.02 Play ground of school complex where children are playing with a ball, drinking lemonade, are playing quoits and are doing sack-races, under great interest of friends and parents. 05.00 Papuan boy climbs a high mast, from where he takes a rolled payoong (umbrella), throws it downwards. After getting down he is greeted by his supporters. 05.23 Civil servant in uniform fires a starting shot with a pistol for a relay race between Hollandia-Stad (Town) and Hollandia-Haven (Harbour), after which the runners set off. Checkpoint along hilly road where a runner has dropped down. 05.53 Finish where Papuan participant arrives first under great enthusiasm. 06.01 Photographer on the side in the middle of numerous people, watching dances by a group of Kapauku from the Wissel Lakes (Paniai Lakes). 06.23 Papuan dancers, white painted and provided with oblong drums, performing a rhythmical dance. 06.46 Two outriggers with white painted Papuan dancers mooring at the grassy bank, where lots of spectators are waiting. Dancers, amongst whom a bow-and-arrow marksman performing a prolonged group dance, accompanying themselves with drums. 07.41 Dancers armed with lances and adorned with long plumes. 07.50 Papuan girls with reed aprons and white bras performing a dance. 08.11 Another group exclusively of men performing and accompanying themselves with drums. 08.33 Ring-dance of Papuan dancers. 08.40 Bare-footed dance legs and the neighbour's legs in red and black football stockings and brown shoes. 08.43 White painted dancers in red skirts. 08.55 Dancing in two rows the dancers move forward behind the Dutch flag. 09.09 Then again in single file along the public. 09.13 Group stops and bows in front of the public. 09.18 New Guinea map with white letters: Released by Rank Film Distributors (Holland) N.V. 09.24 Text: 'The End'. Device of the Netherlands Government Information Service. 09.30 End
Year
1959
Technical detail
Film type
Information film
Dating
01-03-1959
Color
Spoken comment
Dutch
Thesaurus terms
Geographic
Geographical term » Papua » Division Hollandia » Subdivision Hollandia » Hollandia
Geographical term » Papua » Division Hollandia » Subdivision Hollandia » Sentani
References
Links
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl
Copyrighthouder(s)
© Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid