SAMOAN NATIVE LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20900, 16 June 1931, Page 12

SAMOAN NATIVE LIFE.

CINEMATOGRAPH LECTURE. FILM IN REALM OF SCIENCE. The everyday lifo of tho natives of Western Samoa was shown in an attractive and instructive manner in a film entitled "Moana of tho South," which was screened in tho Auckland University Hall last evoning, in conjunction with a lecture by Mr. R. G. 11. Manlcy, given under tho auspices of tho Auckland Institute and Museum.

In his lecture, "The Motion ricluvo in tho Service of Anthropology," Mr. Manley said man, in tho early days of his history as a social boing, recorded his various activities by means of crude outline drawings. This medium of expression developed later into the painted picture, and subsequently came also tho invention of photography, by which means man was able to capture and record incidents in his daily life. This, in turn, developed into the motion picture, which had an unequalled merit as a medium of recording events. Ona of the first men to realise tho potentialities of tho moving picture in this connection was Robert J. EJnherty, an American. Flaherty commencod taking cinema films as an activity incidental to his profession as a mining engineer, and subsequently engaged in expeditions with the sole purpose of recording with the film the life of native peoples. Ilis picture "Nanook of the North" was an outstanding example. "Monna of the South" might be called a sequel. The latter film was then screened and showed in pictorial mannor tho points made by the lecturer. The life of tho Samoan was outlined, from boyhood to manhood, in a manner greatly appreciated by the large audience. Incidents portrayed included the gathering of coconuts and taro root, fishing and surf riding, preparation of food, the making of cloth, dancing, tattooing, und the ceremonial drinking of kava.

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