Take No. 17

Costume Details
Matahi: - Our brown pareus pants fashion
tiare wreath at cockeyed angle
over right ear.
Marii }
Tehare } our brown pareu pants
William } fashion m wreaths
Mehao }
Teina }

Action
Matahi } Order in which boys
Marii } slide down waterfall
William }
Mehao }
Tehare }
Teina }

From shore of top of waterfall camera left [?]
Matahi peers out then Marii, William + other boys.
Matahi motions them + they duck back. Then
Matahi stealthily seats himself on bank of waterfall
+ down he slides into the pool. The others in
the order named follow.
In takes 4 + 5 Action starts when Matahi seats himself
on top of fall.

Comment
The handwritten descriptions and notes are from David Flaherty. The entry "m wreath " in the Costume Details field stands for "metuapua wreath."

Record type
Script Clerk's report

Data Record No.
SCR-712

SDK page number
705

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

Scene No.
17

Lens No.
2"

Footage
75, 50, 60, 45, 35

Location
Pool above Fautaua fall

Date
December 31 1929