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Marshall Islands, The - Living with the Bomb

The people of Bikini Atoll were removed from their homelands as a result of American testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific.
Series : Human Face of the Pacific, The | Episode : 3 | Year : 1983 | Total Duration : 25.5 Minutes | Producer : Dennis O'Rourke (Series Producer), Ian Adkins (Assistant Producer)
Director : Dennis O'Rourke, Tim Litchfield |
Slow pan across run down tin houses lining the foreshore of Majuro Island and VS of women emptying water from well into buckets.
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Access No. 136589 | 35 secs | 1980s | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS woman walking along street in Majuro past run-down buildings. Tilt down from old huts to twin-tub washing machine missing lid and washing with sudsy water. Aerial track over town of Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands lining blue waters. Track POV car past suburban waterfront street of Majuro lined with house, cars and machinery.
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Access No. 136590 | 1 min | 1980s | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Track over sea towards island of Ejit off large island of Majuro occupied by former residents of Bikini Atoll. GS older man sounding bell with VS islanders walking towards church and VS sitting on floor singing. MS pastor preaching from pulpit and CU to woman listening with eyes closed. GS man sitting on floor with hand fan. Aerial track over Marshall Islands settlements.
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Access No. 136591 | 1 min 43 secs | 1980s | Ejit Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival 1946 footage of aerial over Marshall Islands, people sailing outrigger canoe and idyllic scenes of Islanders living and working amongst palm tree-fringed islands.
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Access No. 136592 | 16 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with former Bikini Atoll elder, Kilon talking about the Americans approaching the Bikini Atoll residents about testing atom bombs and how the Islanders resisted.
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Access No. 136593 | 36 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of American officials on Bikini Atoll persuading the Islanders to leave their home. GS Islanders sitting cross-legged on ground listening to army official via an interpreter.
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Access No. 136594 | 20 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with former Bikini Atoll elder, Kilon talking about the meeting with Americans organised in the 1940s.
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Access No. 136595 | 20 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of the filming of American officials with an interpreter speaking to the residents of Bikini Atoll of the Americans intentions to conduct atomic testing for the good of mankind. VS groups of Islanders sitting on ground listening. King Juda being asked to speak to his people. Voice over from former Bikini Atoll resident talking about how they assisted the Americans.
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Access No. 136596 | 1 min 41 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with former Bikini Atoll elder, Kilon talking about the Bikini Atoll residents' mistrust of the translations they were getting from the meetings with American officials prior to the atomic testing. He states that they believed that they were being tricked.
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Access No. 136597 | 44 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival Universal Newsreel footage titled ÒReady For Atomic Tests at BikiniÓ about the preparation for atomic testing and Islander evacuation of Bikini Atoll insinuating that the Islanders welcome the American tests as an ÒopportunityÓ. VS shots around scattered palm trees and people.
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Access No. 136598 | 18 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Islander woman Binirik recalling being moved from Bikini Atoll in 1946 and the sadness and anger she felt.
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Access No. 136599 | 20 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Bikini Atoll young women carrying boxes on their shoulders as they begin evacuating the island in preparation for atomic testing. VS young Islanders eating the sweets and icecreams that the Americans gave them.
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Access No. 136600 | 16 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Islander woman Binirik recalls being afraid about being relocated from Bikini Atoll in 1946. MS former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about the sweets the Americans brought the Islanders enabling them to take propaganda photographs of them laughing and smiling.
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Access No. 136601 | 8 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU Bikini Islander girls laughing as they eat sweets provided by American about to evacuate them for atomic testing.
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Access No. 136602 | 10 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about how the Americans told the Islanders that they would be rich and looked after by the Americans.
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Access No. 136603 | 3 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival newsreel footage of Americans evacuating Bikini Atoll residents in preparation for atomic testing. GS Islanders packing timbers of the community church onto boat for relocation. VS Islanders singing and sitting in groups, many looking sad. CU young baby.
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Access No. 136605 | 37 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about how the Bikini Atoll islanders felt scared being relocated from their homeland.
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Access No. 136606 | 1 sec | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival newsreel footage of Americans evacuating Bikini Atoll residents in preparation for atomic testing. GS Islanders packing packing their belongings and WS carrying them onto huge hold of transport ship.
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Access No. 136607 | 22 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about how the US promised to take care of the Bikini Atoll islanders who as a result trusted them and relocated to enable nuclear testing.
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Access No. 136608 | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival newsreel footage of Americans evacuating Bikini Atoll residents to the island of Rongerik in preparation for atomic testing. VS of Islanders loading their belongings onto ship and waving farewell to their island lined with palm trees.
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Access No. 136609 | 33 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about how the Americans burnt down their houses and did things to the island once they had evacuated the islanders.
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Access No. 136610 | 10 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival newsreel footage with high angle shot over several ships at sea and Bikini Atoll with houses burnt down and WS of Americans erecting tower.
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Access No. 136611 | 11 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about how the Americans abandoned the Bikini Atoll islanders.
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Access No. 136612 | 6 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival newsreel footage with aerial over Rongerik Island and GS of Bikini Islanders being off loaded from huge transport ship to the island. GS men carrying pandanus leaves.
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Access No. 136613 | 13 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Rongerik Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about the extreme hardship the Bikini Islanders suffered on their relocation to the island of Rongerik with poor land, no fish etc.
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Access No. 136614 | 16 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of Bikini Atoll Islanders working on the island of Rongerik.
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Access No. 136615 | 8 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Rongerik, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about the Americans dropping an atomic bomb.
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Access No. 136616 | 2 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of naval ships dropping anchor in the lagoon and aerial over eighty-seven ships positioning themselves as target vessels three miles from Bikini Atoll where atomic testing is to be carried out. VS crews preparing to evacuate the ships and boarding transport vessels away from the ships.
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Access No. 136617 | 36 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Former Bikini Island elder Kilon talking about the the atomic bomb being dropped on Bikini Atoll.
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Access No. 136618 | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of King Juda of Bikini Atoll climbing stairs of American ship to watch the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. MS King Juda shaking hands with Admiral Blandy. MS man looking through binoculars.
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Access No. 136619 | 15 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of bomb being dropped on Bikini Atoll with aerial shot over resultant mushroom cloud. CUs observers wearing tinted goggles. WS explosion and zoom to wall of water closing in over the target vessels. Various WS of explosions and aerial shot over the razed Bikini Atoll.
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Access No. 136620 | 59 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage of bomb being dropped on Bikini Atoll with high aerial over seven mile high mushroom cloud rising. GS official observers in ship drawing up closer to the target carrier Independence looking at bomb damage. VS of destruction of the target fleet.
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Access No. 136621 | 24 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU tattered American flag flying. Slow pan across modest often run-down housing. CU interview with former Bikini Island elder Kilon about the despair the Islanders felt when they saw the bombs landing on Bikini Atoll and the realisation that their island had been poisoned and effectively destroyed.
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Access No. 136622 | 1 min 7 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS Islander woman arriving in boat at Ejit after shopping at Majuro Island carrying boxes of food from the supermarket. VS Islanders preparing chicken carcasses near edge of shore, pigs in stye and bags of rice being carried on man's shoulders. MS interview with former Bikini Island elder Kilon about the bounty they had at Bikini Atoll and how their new home means nothing to them.
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Access No. 136623 | 1 min 22 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan along buildings and houses of main road on island of Ejit. VS around town, government buildings, street traffic and supermarket aisles. VS female Islander Binirik shopping and shots of goods in aisles. MS cash register. MS interview with former Bikini Island elder Kilon complaining about eating American relief food comparing it to their former life on Bikini Atoll where the sea and island provided everything.
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Access No. 136624 | 1 min 31 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS children playing a form of volleyball and MS interview with Islander woman about the poor state of the children's health. CU poster for Son of Godzilla with tilt down to MS young boy eating bubble gum. CU white snooker ball on blue cloth being hit across pool table and WS with grafitti on wall. VS young men playing pool. Tilt down from poster of celebrity Farah Fawcett-Majors.
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Access No. 136625 | 1 min 37 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Track from pool room through doorway to another room with electronic machines where the displaced youth of all ages born to the former Bikini Islanders gather around screens. MS interview with Binirik who grew up on Bikini reminiscing about her former way of life compared to now. VS Islander youth smoking and playing cards. MS three small children performing for camera blowing toys like trumpets. High angle track of young girl walking along reading a western fashion magazine.
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Access No. 136626 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1980s | Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS children living on Majuro Island playing pool on mini table and laying down money. CUs faces. Interview with former Bikini Island elder Kilon despairing of the lack of activities available to the younger generations and the bleakness of their futures. GS young boy mock fighting to camera and VS children walking around Majuro.
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Access No. 136627 | 1 min 50 secs | 1980s | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of islanders on outrigger sailing past sea plane.
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Access No. 136628 | 12 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with former Bikini Island resident wanting America to keep their promise to repatriate the Islanders back to Bikini.
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Access No. 136629 | 8 secs | 1980s | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of young Bikini Island women working the land.
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Access No. 136630 | 8 secs | 1940s, 1980s, | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with former Bikini Island elder Kilon despairing of living out his days never seeing Bikini Atoll again. MS small girls playing hand clapping games.
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Access No. 136631 | 39 secs | 1980s | Majuro Island, Marshall Islands | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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