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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1977Vol. 48, No. 1

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Pacific Islawpif

January, 1977

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This G ilbertese youth “walking” up the coconut palm was “shot” by film director Karl-Heinz Stellmach for his film. Sailing in the Trade Winds, which was com missioned by the Catholic Church in the Gilberts. Mr Stellmach, who married his Gilbertese leading lady, Aborina Tenanorake, has also made other outstanding films of the Islands, The Long Way, featuring PNG’s Central District, .. . and then came Dawn, about the Eastern Highlands, and a film of West Australia’s far north, Tjakamarra, a boy between two worlds.