Pitcairn People

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1962
  • Asset ID: 800744
  • Synopsis: Pitcairn - two square miles of volcanic rock in the South Pacific - a thousand miles from anywhere. Here in 1790 Fletcher Christian, mate of the the 'Bounty', started with nine of his fellow mutineers and eighteen Tahitian men and women, their own lost world - burning the ship that had brought them there, lest they be tempted to leave. Nearly two centuries later the Pitcairners have come to terms with the world outside. In what ways and with what results are shown in this film - shot by a film unit landed on the island from a BP tanker specially diverted to deliver a small cargo of fuel for the island's modest needs for a year. The film is a unique record of the life on this most remote of all the outposts serviced by BP.
  • Shotlist: 00:28:00 Long pan shot of forests and people, 00:29:50 We are then introduced to a young girl, Brenda Cristianson, who is a descendent of one of the mutineer's of the Bounty 00:31:41 Map of the worlds zooms into Pitcairn Island 00:31:00 LS of island 00:31:50 People looking out from a house window for a ship 00:32:35 GVs of the The Edge, the islands only harbour/cove 00:33:10 The towns people help to send a boat out to sea, inc. on boat footage once they've all climbed aboard and the unloading once back onshore 00:36:05 The people in the boat climb aboard a large tanker 00:37:10 Children playing with stones and a tied up crab, like a tennis ball on a game of swing ball, while being prodded by a stick 00:40:40 A young woman puts on a record player 00:41:00 The people of the island attend the share out, a market of sorts where gifts donated to the islanders are equal shared out 00:42:00 A woman baking bread is stone ovens 00:43:00 Men hunting goats 00:44:50 Singing hymns at Congregation 00:46:15 Tapes playing audio of people who have left the island (normally for New Zealand) to see the wider world 00:47:40 The islanders singing and playing music 00:48:40 A man reads a magazine in bed, children singing at school 00:49:50 Barrels of BP fuel being unloaded from a tanker, providing a years supply of oil for island, inc. LS of tanker and pan to the island, a man attends to a tombstone, ELS of island at sunset
  • Production Company: World Wide Pictures
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None