Report on Ocean Island, soon to be left, stripped of phosphate, by mining commissioners and resettled by descendants of original islanders.
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Report on Ocean Island, soon to be left, stripped of phosphate, by mining commissioners and resettled by descendants of original islanders.
- Title: Report on Ocean Island, soon to be left, stripped of phosphate, by mining commissioners and resettled by descendants of original islanders.
- Date: 1st January 1975
- Summary: 1. MV white man wearing floral crowd and garland making speech. GV pan along rows of natives in native dress listening. 17 ft 2. SV crowning of representative, he walks through lines of Barnabans shaking hands. 28 ft 3. GV natives stand waving on pier as boat draws away. 36 ft 4. GV shots delegation walking through streets of London, near Whitehall. 83 ft 5. CU Imperial German helmet zoom out to show it standing next to British colonial helmet pan up to map. CU hand drawing red lines round islands on map. 108 ft 6. CU, SV Plaque of Albert Ellis based on pinnacle of rock. 115 ft 7. SV Jim Downes sitting by plaque talking to camera. 162 ft 8. CU tilt down contract. 166 ft 9. CU Union Jack planted on map. 174 ft 10. Sequence of stills - natives working in mines, making canoes, beach scene. 184 ft 11. CV blast on mining area. 187 ft 12. GV, CU machine scooping up earth. 206 ft 13. CV blasts. 213 ft 14. GV machine scooping up phosphate and dumping it in lorry. 222 ft 15. GV shots waves breaking against beaches. 246 ft 16. GV Ai Sokula sailing across sea. 256 ft 17. MV Jim Downes talking to camera, pan across parched land. 288 ft 18. GV, CU land - consisting of monoliths of coral. 238 ft 19. Pan across land to CU Tekose Rotan. 347 ft 20. MV Tekose Rotan. 369 ft 21. GV, CU shots mining. Islander at controls of bulldozer, Australian standing on ground supervising. 402 ft 22. MV Tekose Ronan. 414 ft 23. Several shots mining. 445 ft 24. Zoom into CU stunted coconut growing on barren land. 453 ft 25. GV coconut tree being felled by bulldozer. 457 ft 26. MV Tekose Ronan. 496 ft 27. GV, CU settlers digging soil, trees growing around them. 516 ft 28. CU, SV old man running soil through fingers. 527 ft 29. CU, SV coconut being planted 549 ft 30. SV Jim Downes watching planting and talking to camera. 588 ft 31. Montage of shots - coconut being planted, bulldozer dozing down tree. 618 ft 32. LS, SV shots golfers on course. 640 ft 33. SV, GV shots men in single canoes fishing. 651 ft 34. GV, CU shots tuna being gutted and eaten/fish being prepared. 667 ft 35. GV, CU shots shell of old Courthouse. 703 ft 36. GV, SV Ai Sokula across sea. 712 ft 37. SV girls waving on board. 715 ft 38. GV island, as ship approaches. 738 ft 39. GV small launch approaching with settlers in. 749 ft 40. GV, CU phosphate being loaded onto ship. 756 ft 41. GV, CU settlers stepping off launch. 780 ft 42. GV pan along stripped coral pinnacles. 825 ft Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: Ocean Island
- Country: AT SEA
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