BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 4.

Date:
c.1935
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BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 4. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

British Medical Association Round the World Tour and Annual Meeting at Melbourne. 1935

Description

This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot on the BMA's World Tour. This reel begins with duplicate material of 'Leaving Melbourne for Sydney and Jenolan Caves on SS Nieuw Zeeland'; the group splits into two parties. One party travelled on the SS Marella via Port Darwin to Java and Singapore and the other via Bali. The film follows the group who go to the caves, travelling along the coast from Sydney to Port Darwin. There is a long shot of a man throwing a boomerang. More larking about on board ship is seen before arrival at Port Darwin. In a hangar, there is a shiny silver Qantas airline plane. Aboriginal men perform for onlookers. The arrives in the Dutch East Indies and Bali. The Bali material is unique to this itinerary. The group arrive at the time of a celebration and Buddhist funeral; there is traditional dancing. In Java there is a funeral procession which is a very simple affair. There are local boys dancing and ram fighting in Ngamplang. At Djocja there is footage of the Sultan's bodyguard and scenes at the impressive Borobudur Temple. A large group of tourists gather and the camera pans across the group.

Publication/Creation

UK, c.1935.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (16:41 min.) : silent, black and white.

Duration

00:16:41

Notes

This is a digitised copy of a film series retained by the BMA. The BMA funded the transfer and duplication of this material which has been loaned to the Wellcome Library.
This series of films (there are 6 in the collection) relate to the British Medical Association's Round the World Tour and Annual Meeting in Melbourne, 1935. This series is an alternative itinerary to that held in the Wellcome Library. The films appear to have been available to purchase as a customisable souvenir of the journey on a reel-by-reel basis. The key difference of route was that the outgoing journey left from Liverpool, England, and then travelled across Canada via Quebec, Toronto and Niagara.

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Copyright previously held by British Medical Association and assigned to Wellcome in 2005

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