Take No. 62E Retort

Costume Details
All people in canoes
wear our brown pareus, metuapua wreaths.
2 swimming girls: Ahu and Uraori, m
wreaths.
Little boy who grabs paddle: Tama:
m wreath, otherwise naked.
Other little boy in water, Neri:
m wreath.

Action
Camera on platform near stern of double canoe, shooting down,
tied close to stern of double canoe is canoe "Riona" paddled
by three boys, Iaoni, Tauaia and Tara. Canoe is at camera right.
Behind Riona canoe toward camera paddle 8 other canoes. From
under platform of double canoe swim two little girls and one
boy, who grab at stern of Riona canoe; one girl gets it and
hangs on while other two are rapidly overtaken by oncoming
canoes. Two little boys then appear from under platform. One
of them grabs middle paddle of Riona canoe and is helped in.

Comment
The author of the typescript can not be identified. "Motutapu lagoon " in the Location field stands for "Motu Tapu lagoon." The entry "m metuapua" in the Costume Details field stands for "metuapua wreath."

Record type
Script Clerk's report

Data Record No.
SCR-675

SDK page number
668

Sequence
Canoe

No. of Takes
No slate on take 4.
1, 2, 3, NG, 4, (5) X, (6) (7)

Scene No.
62E

Lens No.
2"

Footage
65, 35, 35, 15, 30, 40, 33, 27

Location
Motutapu lagoon

Date
December 11 1929