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Beyond Tiki, Bilge, and Test / Beyond Tiki / BBC TV documentary | The Thirties in Colour (features South Pacific, etc)

Post #396246 by 54 house of bamboo on Thu, Jul 24, 2008 11:25 AM

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Watch again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cp456

Together with his younger brother Bolling, the American industrialist Harry Wright was wealthy enough to indulge his twin passions for travel and filmmaking. Both siblings collected and shot films that captured the world at a pivotal time in history.

They captured astonishing images acquired and filmed in the islands of the South Pacific, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, as well as South Africa, Morocco, Palestine, and several countries in Europe, including Britain. These destinations were visited during the golden age of ocean travel, when the well-off could escape the Great Depression and travel the world on luxury cruise ships.