FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

MS of three islanders of New Hebrides, now Vanuatu, holding their children on airport tarmac. VS of people waiting outside Santo Island Pekoa airport arrivals area, track along faces. Group walking across tarmac to alight 737 plane on its way to Vila for the First National Arts festival. WS of small yellow Air Melanesie plane. Titles over plane in take off.

WS of palm fringed bay, titles, pan to boat moored in bay and small outboard motor boat lying low in water bringing large group of islander people to shore. Unpacking goods and cargo from boat. WS of bay with good shot of outrigger canoe on shore carrying large bunch of green bananas. CU of native man blowing into small wind instrument as he marches in parade through main street of Vila. People representing different communities carrying sticks and wearing native dress with grass reeds around waist or as headdress in First National Arts Festival.

MS of Chief Minister of New Hebrides Government, Walter Lini, giving speech at microphone. WS of Vila, harbour and track along waterfront and Vila village with people sitting and listening to speech. VS of groups of islanders

LS of islanders performing traditional native dance, CU on feet with shell anklets, man performing with bow and arrow. CU of woman taking a photograph. WS of showground used as main performing area for First National Arts Festival, Maewo and Pentecost native dances. Man drumming on large log and another man killing pig with a club. Woman preparing food under large tree. VS of native dances. CU man kneeling in grey trousers and white shirt, drumming on log. CU of carving a design onto a hollowed out log, Ambrym carving. VS women bundling sticks and men making fire sparked in coconut fibres by rubbing with stones and sticks.

Sweet potato, taro and pork being cooked in banana leaves over hot rocks, traditional food sharing ceremony. Sacred dance from Mota Islanders, a small island of the Banks group. Shark and fish head dress, grass skirts. CU on weaving palm leaves and WS on large group of women preparing palm leaves for weaving. Man kneeling and describing small pots and the craft of pot making by Santo Islander women. Hut building from grass. VS people blowing into pipe flutes carved from wood or bamboo. CU of elaborate sand drawings and the CU of the same designs in a book.

MCU on dancer's feet. MWS of islander dancers in procession. Dance from Island of Malekula with dancers wearing narrow woven belts. Dancers wearing spotted face masks. Man performing magic ritual dance,then three men performing magic dance with stick. Audience clapping. Children dancing in circle and woman holding baby and singing. CU of men eating kava from banana leaves with hands. CU man blowing conch shell. Islanders from Malekula perform dance wearing masks made from tree ferns and feathers.

Islander women preparing communal meal celebration. CU on man playing a mouthbow. Islander chiefs from share kava in kava ceremony from leaf held by man. VS people eating. Large islander group performing dances from Tanna Islands in colourful grass skirts. W of audience with sun rays creating misty effect. Chief Minister gives speech. VS of islander groups known as seaweed men and women listening. MS cameraman. VS of dancing and singing at the end of festival at night