Pearls and Savages: Hurley’s boat, the Eureka (1921)
1921
Pearls and Savages: Hurley’s boat, the Eureka (1921)
1921
- NFSA ID5T9ZBSXT
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormDocumentary
- Duration56 mins, 43 secs
- GenresSilent film, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1921
A shot of Hurley’s boat and his seaplane being unloaded off a ship from Sydney at Hanuabada, near Port Moresby. The people in their canoes help Hurley with his plane.
A shot of Hurley’s boat and his seaplane being unloaded off a ship from Sydney at Hanuabada, near Port Moresby. The people in their canoes help Hurley with his plane.
- NFSA ID5T9ZBSXT
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormDocumentary
- Duration56 mins, 43 secs
- GenresSilent film, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1921
- DirectorFrank HurleyProducerFrank Hurley
by Liz McNiven
On his boat, the Eureka, and on the seaplanes, Hurley travelled around Papua creating some of the most spectacular footage of the time. As noted on the intertitle, this was the first time a plane had flown in Papua New Guinea.
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