New Guinea Film
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Is Worth It
By a Staff Writer
• A series of colour films made l>y the Commonwealth Film Unit in Papua-New Guinea last year are now beginning to reach Australian picture theatres.
The first of them, called simply “Papua and New Guinea” gives an outline of what the Administration is doing for the natives in the way of health, education and and producer Maslyn Williams gets a bouquet for some pretty good film-making.
Some of the colour shots of local scenery are breathtaking, especially the mountain scenery.
There are plenty of Pacific islanders with balmier palm trees and better beaches, but for what the travel agents would call “rugged grandeur”, you have to go to the New Guinea highlands, or the inland mountain areas of Papua— and this film will prove it to a lot of people.
The film has one weakness. It lays on the Administration propa ganda too thickly. A film as good as this one is its own propaganda.
It doesn’t need heavyhanded help from a script writer.