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Cinerama
DUDLEY Pictures Corporation’s cinerama film unit, in the course of a chartered voyage aboard the Liberian-registered Honolulu based passenger schooner Te Vega, was expected at Nukualofa early in August from Tahiti and Rarotonga.
A Tongan choir was in training to sing a number of songs and hymns for the unit, and dancers were also
preparing a suitable display. The unit will proceed to Fiji later.
The film company’s President, Mr.
Carl Dudley, arranged a charter flight from Suva to Nulualofa by a TEAL flyingboat on August 6 to make preliminary arrangements for the four days of filming. Also aboard the flyingboat was a Matson Line representative who made arrange ments for a call by the liner Lurline in the course of a tourist cruise next January, and other Suva business men who took the opportunity to make a quick trip to Nukualofa. t An aeroplane which was built locally by M. Guy Minacco, of Noumea, New Caledonia, was suc cessfully test flown at the end of August. It is of two passenger type.