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Fiji - Legacies of Empire

The film looks at the life of Bechu Prasad, an old Indian man, who has lived in Fiji all his life.
Series : Human Face of the Pacific, The | Episode : 2 | Year : 1983 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Dennis O'Rourke (Series Producer), Ian Adkins (Assistant Producer)
Director : Dennis O'Rourke, Philip Robertson |
Zoom out from older man Mr Prasad lighting candles at a Hindu shrine and offering prayers with his children and grandchildren seated around him. CUs of faces and young girl with her mother. GS lighting of candles for the Festival of Lights which a younger relative carries on tray to distribute around backyard. VS children lighting candles.
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Access No. 136572 | 1 min 32 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS Mr Prasad on telephone and CUs small boy lighting candle in backyard. MS Mr Prasad speaking to crew about his family in the USA who he spoke to on the telephone. Aerial pan across green cultivated countryside. MS interview with Mr Prasad to camera talking about influences of the Empire in his life. CUs to photos in album with Mr Prasad speaking of his family in the photos.
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Access No. 136573 | 2 mins 7 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs archival B&W photographs of government officials in India choosing labour to work in the sugar cane fields and workers collecting pay. Zoom out from B&W still of boat used for transporting labour from India to Fiji in the 1900s. CU photo of Indian workers sitting in field.
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Access No. 136574 | 32 secs | 1900s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan from photo album to Mr Prasad talking to camera about his family history in Fiji. VS young boy ploughing field with two white bulls. VS Mr Prasad standing next to younger man milking cow explaining importance of the cow. CUs of man milking teats, milk spurting into bucket and cow's eye.
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Access No. 136575 | 1 min 34 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS young Fijian Indian men cutting sugar cane with elderly Mr Prasad shouting orders in Hindi. WS cows standing in cleared area with LS canecutters. Interview with Mr Prasad speaking to camera about cutting cane at hours he considers too late in the day. GS worker showing a piece of cane to Mr Prasad. VS four of Prasad's adult children busy in backyard with cleaning, tending to cars etc.
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Access No. 136576 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS people walking along village road. MS to Mr Prasad walking with his small granddaughter and grandson then GS waving them off as they are driven to school in old car. VS in Indian kindergarten class with small children reciting "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" with teacher wearing sari. VS children playing in dusty playground with children on swings, play equipment and playing ball games.
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Access No. 136577 | 1 min 40 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Mr Prasad talking about his work ethic and the importance of work in his life. GS Prasad ploughing land with two horses pulling basic device, trimming back weeds, digging and working his garden. Zoom out from wheels of locomotive along track pulling long line of sugar cane bundled on trolleys blurring as they are pulled past camera.
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Access No. 136578 | 1 min 37 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU locomotive pulling sugar cane bundles past camera to mill for unloading. MS Mr Prasad talking to Lautoka Sugar Mill supervisor and VS cane being unloaded. WS yellow sunset sky over countryside with LS plume of smoke rising. VS in kitchen of women in saris gathering bowls, preparing food and serving it in separate room on long table with many place settings for family members. VS of family arriving and eating.
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Access No. 136579 | 2 mins 22 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS Mr Prasad being interviewed at family dinner table talking about the responsibilies of the head of a family. VS of family members around table eating and interacting. VS around village in morning light, man leading cow and her large calf and Prasad signing a warrant as a JP on bonnet of police car then chatting to officer driving.
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Access No. 136580 | 3 mins 1 sec | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS women preparing dough in kitchen. MS Mr Prasad on telephone then speaking to camera of his philosophy on charity. MS Mr Prasad catching bus followed by his daughter and grandchild. VS Mr Prasad in busy town street in Lautoka warmly greeting several passers-by.
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Access No. 136581 | 2 mins 5 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU old B&W photograph of Mr Prasad sitting on the board of the District Advisory Council. B&W photo of Prasad and several men riding bicycles. B&W still of Prasad as chairman of the Indian Rural Advisory Council and B&W group photo.
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Access No. 136582 | 14 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs of Mr Prasad signing papers and speaking to camera. GS Prasad joining meeting with men sitting around table. Prasad and man behind desk standing to shake hands across desk. Low angle shot of Prasad leading group of people up hillside to pay respects to Fijian family on the death of a Fijian elder. VS ceremonial sharing of Yanguona drink as several people sit on ground. Zoom in to Prasad being handed bowl from which he gives blessing and then drinks from.
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Access No. 136583 | 1 min 51 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Tilt up from water supply to group seated under tree. Zoom out from Mr Prasad to person sitting next to him replying to interviewer's question about Mr Prasad's role as an Advisory Councillor. CU tilt up from Prasad's hands in prayer for the yearly ceremony of Hannianji Katha to his face as he reads prayer book with CU to Hindu priest next to him chanting. VS of Mr Prasad's wife, suffering from cancer, is assisted down to the prayer mat.
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Access No. 136584 | 2 mins 21 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS of Mr Prasad's family in their yard with the women preparing food and the men sitting under tree talking. MS interview with Mr Prasad sadly talking about his hope for his dying wife and his belief in god.
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Access No. 136585 | 55 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W photograph of Mr Prasad bowing while shaking hands on receipt of MBE medal at Government House in Suva.
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Access No. 136586 | 3 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU of Mr Prasad holding his MBE medal from the Queen. Slow pan across various photographs and framed documents on Prasad's home walls. MS Mr Prasad with his small grandson talking to camera about his hopes for his grandson's future as a farmer. GS men loading sugar cane onto tray and Prasad and his granson sitting with backs to camera watching the canecutters and chatting.
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Access No. 136587 | 1 min 32 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS green cultivated countryside with LS to cane train passing behind.
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Access No. 136588 | 8 secs | 1980s | Fiji | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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