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  1. Buna Cleared of Japs

    Date released
    4 Mar 1943
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    43/18
    NoS ID
    099871
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Generals Blamey and Eichelberger, Australian and American Commanders in New Guinea, see for themselves the final action that drove the Japanese from Buna.

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  2. US Redoubles Rabaul Assault

    Date released
    10 Feb 1944
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1351
    NoS ID
    039039
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet

    US Marines make new landing in force on New Britain, in latest drive towards Jap air base.

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  3. Carrot and the Stick, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Susi Arnott
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the...

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  4. New Guinea Pincer Move Defeats Japs

    Date released
    16 Dec 1943
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1335
    NoS ID
    038956
    Story no
    1 / 6

    Simultaneous attacks on Finschafen from north and south wrest last New Guinea anchorage from enemy.

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  5. Shark Callers of Kontu, The (1982 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke; Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Looks at the men of Kontu, a small coastal village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, who still practise the ritual of ‘shark calling’. Traditionally the men have gone to sea in frail outrigger canoes to...

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  6. Man Without Pigs (1990 Video)

    Director
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    John Waiko is the first Papua New Guinean to reach the status of professor. He travelled back from Australia to his home village to celebrate his achievement with his own people of the Binandere clan. When...

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  7. Allies Invade New Britain (First Pictures)

    Date released
    24 Jan 1944
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1346
    NoS ID
    039017
    Story no
    6 / 7

    Intense naval bombardment precedes US landing on South Pacific island. Air attack on Cape Gloucester supports operation.

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  8. People of Porgera (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

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  9. Decorations (1972 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...

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  10. New Guinea Greets "The Governor"

    Date released
    1 Sep 1949
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    49/70
    NoS ID
    103079
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Tribesmen mass in New Guinea highlands to greet Australian Governor General McKell.

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