Take No. 155 Retort

Costume Details
Our grass skirts, frangipani
stem headdresses; most have
neck wreaths of frangipani

Action
"Camera is set up near pool, so we see reflections
of a group of lovely girls and the girls themselves
making their toilets in great haste. They are bent
over the pool, using it as a mirror“

Camera shoots across pond to group of 7 girls
wearing our grass skirts hair long beside pool,
combing their tresses, using pool as a mirror.
They help each other put on their frangipani
headdresses, we see their reflections in pool. Then
at a call from offscreen some of them start to
wiggle (meanwhile people are running in b.g.
camera r. to l.) The girls make haste, get
headdresses on and run out camera left.

Notes
Copy

Girls: camera left to right are: -
Pepe, Teoa, Miria, Unu, Piau,
Teara, Terii (kneeling)

Comment
The handwritten descriptions and notes are from David Flaherty. The name "Motutapu pond" in the Location field stands for "Motu Tapu pond."

Record type
Script Clerk's report

Data Record No.
SCR-553

SDK page number
548

Sequence
Dance Preparation

No. of Takes
1. 2. 3. 4. (5) X (6) X

Scene No.
155

Lens No.
6"

Footage
60. 60. 50. 30. 40. 45

Location
Motutapu pond

Date
December 14 1929