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A Tahitian Fish Dive
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by [?] Bertram Bracken?

Cast: (unknown)

Méliès Star Films [American] production; distributed by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America through The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 17 April 1913; in a split-reel with What is Sauce for the Goose (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Bora-Bora (despite the film’s title).

Documentary.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? An event that happens in Tahiti but once in every ten years and only by special permission of the French Governor of Tahiti, a holiday is declared. Three hundred natives parade to the sea shore, where, after praying to the God Shark for success, they proceed far out into the sea in canoes. A large semi-circle is formed and the natives, jumping from their canoes, beat the water with brush, coming closer and closer to the shore, driving the fish into a coral basin, where they are speared to the number of thousands.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Bora-Bora

Listing updated: 7 October 2023.

References: Thompson-Star p. 233 : Website-IMDb.

 
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