Take No. 62 Retort 4

Costume Details
In canoes, bow to stern:
camera left canoe:
Tariu
Marama
Piau (girl)
Teiho

Camera right canoe
Fanau
Tati
Terii

All wear our brown pareus and
m wreaths wreaths.
All are men except Piau.

Action
"Side of canoe. We see a bank of paddles digging into the
water, which splashes almost over the screen.

Camera on platform of double canoe near stern. Two canoes tied
close to stern of double canoe, with just the width of outrigger
between them (Over bow of camera left canoe hang ferns covering
name.)
They paddle furiously, racing. (3 paddles in camera left canoe,
1 in right.) Camera shoots down, no horizon, no b.g.

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-676

SDK page number
669

Sequence
Canoes

No. of Takes
(1) (2) X, (3) X, (4) X

Scene No.
62

Medium Shot
med. close

Lens No.
2"

Footage
20, 25, 25, 20

Location
Motutapu lagoon

Date
December 11 1929