b&w, sound, 15 mins. German voice-over commentary.
Production: SHB Film – Vienna.
Source : Austrian Film-Archiv
This film was made by Paul Spindler, curator of the anthropological collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Originally released in 16mm, it describes the work of Rudolf Pöch in New Guinea during his expedition in 1904-1906, incorporating some of the 35mm film footage that Pöch shot during this expedition, as well as some of his photographs.
The film footage consists mainly of short descriptive sequences of day-to-day life in the Motu and Koita village cluster of Hanuabada, close to Port Moresby. Although it is clear from Pöch’s own 1907 account of the expedition that he shot more footage in New Guinea than is shown in this film, these appear to be the only sequences to have survived.
Texts: Pöch 1907a and 1907b, Spindler 1974, Niles 2000