Eight Hours to Bali Hai
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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Eight Hours to Bali Hai. DESCRIPTION: It takes less than eight hours to Tahiti from Australia now that an air service has been inaugurated. Our pictures show the nearby island of Moorea which was used as Bali Hai in the Rodgers and Hammerstein spectacular, South Pacific. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV coastline of Isle of Tahiti. GV dancers. MS passengers off plane. ES dancers. MS dancers give floral wreath (lei) to passenger. GV dancers. MCU drummers. MS dancers. GV same. MCU same. CU same. MLS pan down light house at Point Venus. MS same. CU plaque on same. GV harbour. GV same. CU row of catamarans. MS tracking Tahitian riding moped. MS another (2 shots). MCU little boy on cycle. GV Isle of Moorea. MS two Tahitians on boat. CU same. GV Moorea. GV visitors on boat. GV Moorea. GV Cook’s Bay aerial. GV aerial - pan along coastline. GV plane on water. MS two Tahitian children. MS plane on water. MS visitors photographing Tahitians. GV visitors dancing with same. MS same. MS Tahitian dancer. GV pan island’s coastline.
- Keywords
- Music and dance; Aviation; Ceremonies; Scenery and travel
- Locations
- Tahiti
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 87647
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 206
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How to cite this record
'Eight Hours to Bali Hai', British Movietone News Issue No. 1801A, 12 Dec 1963. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/25357 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)