FACT, FILM, AND FANCY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 19

FACT, FILM, AND FANCY

. Starting off with the false, assumption that "no adequate story of the Bounty and its highly tinselled career iv the South Seas has ever been recorded," Charles Chauvcl attempts, to remedy this imagined omission by offering through the Endeavour Press of Sydney a book called "In the Wake of the Bounty." The author is the director of a film company, and recently voyaged to Tahiti and Pitcairn Island in order to tako scenes for a film dealing with the story of the Bounty mutiny. By delving into old records, by using the certain amount of licence expected in modern film production, and by the aid of the camera, he has succeeded in producing a story about the Bounty and its mutineers, and about life on Tahiti as it used to be, which, to use his own words, is '•'highly tinselled." Although Mr. Chauvel has written, quite an enthralling descriptive romance, mingled with interesting -observation or present' day conditions, his volume is hardly likely to be accepted as the authoritative one on the episode with which it deals. However, it should whet the appetite for seeing the film. But why should the island of Aitutaki have its name spelt "Wytootackei," when the former is the accepted form?