- Title: VM-30
- Summary: SPECIAL OF THE WEEK: EASTER ISLAND: EASTER ISLAND HISTORY. FIRST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS MADE ON EASTER ISLAND
- Description:00:01:23 - ANIMATED SPACE, EARTH, STARS, SOUTH AMERICA WITH A STAR AT EASTER ISLAND 00:02:28 - WAVES CRASHING ON ROCKS, SHORE, VOLCANIC ISLAND 00:03:00 - LS DEAD VOLCANIC CRATER COVERED WITH GRASS 00:03:05 - CARVED STONE HEADS OF EASTER ISLAND. MEGALITHS OF AN UNKNOWN CULTURE. STONE MONUMENTS. 00:04:03 - CU BONES, REMAINS. ARCHAEOLOGIST PICKS UP SKULL 00:04:28 - CU WOODEN TABLETS WITH ROWS OF STRANGE SYMBOLS UN-DECIPHERABLE. EARLY FORM OF WRITING. COMMUNICATION. IDEOGRAPHIC SCRIPTS 00:04:38 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS ROAM LOOKING FOR ARTIFACTS. CU OBSIDIAN SPEARHEAD. VOLCANIC GLASS. 00:05:06 - TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS SET UP CAMP ON EASTER ISLAND SHIP ANCHORED IN OPEN WATERS. SUPPLIES BROUGHT ON SHORE. 00:05:49 - LITTLE GIRL PLAYS JOYFULLY IN TRUCK. CHILD PRETENDS TO DRIVE 00:05:54 - LS CAMP SET UP ON EASTER ISLAND 00:06:02 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS STUDYING LONG, HARD BASALT BLOCKS THAT SERVED AS FOUNDATION STONE. VISIBLE ON THE SURFACE. 00:06:44 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS RECONSTRUCT FOUNDATION WALL ON PAPER BRANCHES MAKE ROOF OF REEDS. RE-CREATING ANCIENT DOMICILE. OPEN OVEN. 00:07:07 - OVENS ON EASTER ISLAND, FINDING STILL OLDER OVENS FURTHER DOWN. ARCHAEOLOGISTS SIFT DIRT, FIND HUMAN BONES. CANNIBALISM. 00:07:45 - CU SIFTING THROUGH DIRT, FIND BLUE PEARL VENETIAN TRADING PEARL DATING TO 1722 00:08:03 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION, ARCHAEOLOGISTS BRUSHING BONES 00:08:25 - TREELESS ISLAND TRADE WINDS CARRY DUST LIKE DRIFTING SNOW COVERING THE LANDSCAPE OVER TIME 00:08:35 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS STUDY HEAPS OUTSIDE CAVES THAT ONCE WERE DWELLINGS. 00:08:49 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS GO INSIDE CAVES, HUMAN BONES DISCOVERED. REMAINS OF CANNIBALS. PRIMITIVE CULTURE. 00:09:29 - MEN IN JEEP, ON HORSEBACK, BICYCLE ON EASTER ISLAND BARREN TREELESS LANDSCAPE, PASS MEGALITHS 00:10:04 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS STUDY MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS LARGE HEADS. THROWS A ROPE AND CLIMBS TO THE TOP OF ONE. MOTHER AND CHILD POSE ON A HEAD. 00:11:41 - MEASURE 21 FEET ABOVE GROUND. DIG DOWN TO CHECK BELOW GROUND EXTENSION. PAN DOWN UNEARTHED TORSO OF A MEGALITH. BELLY BUTTON, ARMS. SYMBOLS CARVED ON THE BACK, RAINBOW, RAIN AND TWO SUNS, 41 FEET TALL 50 TONS. MASTERPIECE OF ENGINEERING 00:13:54 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE MOUNTAINSIDE WORKSHOP WHERE HALF COMPLETED FIGURES LIE ON THE GROUND 00:14:24 - ARCHAEOLOGIST WALKS ALONG TOP-MOST EDGE OF A CRATER WITH MEGALITHIC HEAD AT THE BASE 00:14:56 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS CLIMB UNCOMPLETED MEGALITH 69 FEET TALL 00:16:41 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS LOOK AT MEGALITHS SCATTERED ALONG THE BEACH AND GRASS COVERED HILLS 00:16:57 - TEAM WALKS SINGLE FILE WITH SHOVELS ON THEIR SHOULDERS. DIGGING AROUND THE OLDEST CEREMONIAL HOUSE ON THE ISLAND. PRE-DATING THE MEGALITHS TO BEFORE THE PRESENT ISLAND POPULATION CAME 00:17:43 - CU MOUND SAMPLE IN HAND 00:17:51 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAMP LIFE, MEN COOK IN BIG POTS, TEAM EATING. MOTHER TAKES CARE OF YOUNG DAUGHTER. 00:18:11 - NATIVE VISITORS, BRINGING CARVED FIGURES TO BARTER WITH. CU REPLICAS OF POLYNESIAN HOUSEHOLD GODS. MS NATIVE MAYOR WITH ONE OF HIS CARVINGS 00:18:35 - POLYNESIAN NATIVES POSE WITH WEATHERED STONE FIGURE WITH TRACES OF ANCIENT VANDALISM. 00:18:53 - EASTER ISLAND CLIFFS, OCEAN WAVES 00:19:03 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS CRAWL OUT OF TINY CAVE ENTRANCE 00:19:19 - BIRD SEAGULL SOARS ALONG CLIFFS 00:19:27 - MAP OF EASTER ISLAND 00:19:31 - PENINSULA WHERE "THE LONG EARS" INHABITED. EARLIER PEOPLE. CU STATUETTE DEPICTING EARLY EASTER ISLAND PEOPLE, LONG EARS, AQUILINE NOSE, BEARD 00:19:49 - MONTAGE CU EASTER ISLAND MEGALITHS, TRIBUTES TO KINGS, OTHER EMINENT MEN DEIFIED AFTER DEATH 00:20:02 - "LONG EARS" ANCESTOR TALKS WITH ARCHAEOLOGISTS 00:20:19 - MAP OF EASTER ISLAND 00:20:29 - EASTERN TIP OF THE ISLAND WHERE THE LONG EARS LIVED. 00:20:40 - MAP SHOWS VAST DITCH ACROSS PENINSULA FILLED WITH BRANCHES TO SET ON FIRE, DEFENSE AGAINST ATTACK FROM THE SHORT EARS. AND ROUTE AROUND THE DITCH THE SHORT EARS TOOK AND ATTACKED FROM THE REAR 00:21:15 - SKETCHES OF LONG EARS BY ONE OF CAPTAIN COOK'S ARMY, 1774 00:21:23 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS SEARCH FOR THE LONG EARS DITCH DIGGING HOLES, FINDING ASHES. CU HAND HOLDING CHARRED REMAINS OF WOOD. EXCAVATION FINDS A DEFENSIVE DITCH 2 MILES LONG, 12 FEET DEEP, 40 FEET WIDE. CARBON DATING FIRE TO 1670 00:23:45 - BIZARRE ANIMATION, FIRE WITH ANIMATED PEOPLE FALLING TO THEIR DEATHS, LIVE ACTION NATIVE SUPERIMPOSED. DESCENDANT OF THE LONG EARS 00:23:57 - MAYOR, DESCENDANT OF THE LAST SURVIVING LONG EAR AND OTHER NATIVES HELP ARCHAEOLOGISTS WITH TECHNIQUE OF HANDLING STATUES 00:24:18 - POV FROM TOP OF LARGEST VOLCANO LOOKING DOWN AT BOGGY CRATER LAKE 00:24:25 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS WALK THROUGH TALL REEDS TO REACH THE LAKE. REEDS BROUGHT BY FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND. FRESH WATER PLANTS SPREADING ONLY THROUGH GROUND SHOOTS. MEN COLLECT BOTANICAL SAMPLES. 00:25:04 - CU MEN WALKING THROUGH DEEP MUDDY BOG EARTH 00:25:19 - MEN MEASURE DEPTH OF THE LAKE 00:25:31 - EASTER ISLAND FROM A HIGH POINT. MEN WALKING, LOOKING AT BOULDERS 00:25:51 - 1786 DRAWING OF A MEGALITH WITH A "TOPKNOT" HUGE BOULDER ON TOP OF THE HEAD 00:26:23 - REDDISH FALLEN TOPKNOTS NEXT TO OVERTHROWN STATUES, FACE DOWN. EARLY VANDALISM BY THE SHORT EARS. 00:26:55 - OLD STONE PICKS COLLECTED IN THE QUARRY. NATIVE STONE CUTTERS USING CRUDE IMPLEMENTS & SING ANCIENT STONE CUTTER'S SONG. CONTOURS GRADUALLY BEGIN TO EMERGE. CHOPPING AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE WITH STONE PICKS. TRADITIONS, RITUALS. 00:28:44 - ARCHAEOLOGIST CLIMBS MEGALITH 00:29:13 - LS PAN CAMP, TENTS ON EASTER ISLAND 00:29:30 - NATIVE EASTER ISLANDERS SHOW HOW MEGALITHS WERE ERECTED WITHOUT MECHANICAL MEANS. RAISING FALLEN STATUE. NATIVES CARRY LONG LOGS. LIFT THE STONE WITH LOGS. WEDGE STONES IN AND LIFT. 00:31:27 - NATIVE SHOWS HOW ROPE WAS MADE BY TWISTING AND BRAIDING BARKS OF HIBISCUS. MAKING THICK CABLE 00:31:44 - NATIVE MEN LIFTING STONE WITH LONG LOGS. MS, CU NATIVE MEN MAKE STRING FIGURES WITH ANCIENT TEXT. CHANTING AS THE OTHERS LIFT THE STONE MONUMENT. FASCINATING 00:33:48 - NATIVE AND ARCHAEOLOGIST STAND IN FRONT OF MEGALITH & SHAKE HANDS. 00:34:04 - LS MEGALITH STANDING ON SHORE, SHIP MOORED IN B/G 00:34:17 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS CAMP, ARCHAEOLOGIST AND HIS FAMILY GOING TO BED 00:34:39 - SILHOUETTE OF MEGALITH AT NIGHT 00:34:53 - SUNSET THROUGH CLOUDS 00:35:12 - SILHOUETTE OF MEGALITH AT DUSK 00:35:17 - JEEP CLIMBS UP INCLINE 00:35:24 - EASTER ISLAND MEGALITHS STONE MONUMENTS. 00:35:38 - PAN EASTER ISLAND TO OCEAN, WATER SPOUTS UP FROM CREVICES. 00:35:59 - TWO SHEEP OR GOATS RUN ON ROCKS 00:36:05 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS CLIMB UP CLIFFS, THROW ROPE OVER SIDE, CLIMB DOWN TO MIDDLE OF CLIFF FACE & FIND A STONE HEAD AND NATIVE CAVE 00:36:49 - INSIDE CLIFF CAVE, STONE SKULLS, STATUES, ARTIFACTS FILL THE CAVE. INCREDIBLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. PAGANISM 00:38:19 - SUNSET, CLOUDS. 00:38:23 - BIRD SOARS 00:38:30 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND NATIVES MOVE STONE CARVINGS OUT OF THE CAVE. SCULPTURES OF LOBSTER AND FISH WERE MADE TO INCREASE FERTILITY OF THE SPECIES. 00:39:09 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT ANOTHER SECRET FAMILY CAVE, CRAWL IN AND DISCOVER CURIOUS OLD LAVA SCULPTURES IN THE SEA CLIFFS. SCULPTURE DEPICTING ANCIENT MYTH, REED HOUSE AND OVEN PLACED ON THE BACK OF A WHALE WITH 6 PELLETS UNDER ITS BELLY. MANA. MAGIC POWER. CAVE SCULPTURES. 00:41:18 - PAN EASTER ISLAND, OCEAN 00:41:39 - SHIP LEAVING EASTER ISLAND. UNINHABITED SMALL ROCK ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC. RUINS BUILT OF STONE. 00:41:54 - LIFEBOAT ON ROUGH SEAS CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE ISLAND, NATIVE DIVERS, CAPTAIN AND STEWARD SWIM ASHORE. CAMERAS HOISTED ASHORE. 00:42:31 - MEN IN LIFEBOAT FISH, CATCH PACIFIC SALMON 00:42:44 - LS CLIMBERS ASCENDING CLIFFS 00:42:48 - MEN FISHING FOR PACIFIC SALMON 00:43:02 - LS ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORING UNINHABITED ISLAND 00:43:07 - SHARKS CHASE FISH AWAY 00:43:19 - CU SHARK ON A HOOK ESCAPES 00:43:26 - CLIMBERS WAIT ON SHORE 00:43:31 - MAN DIVERTS THE SHARKS WHILE MEN ON SHORE SWIM TO THE BOAT. 00:44:01 - SHARKS SWIM 00:44:06 - MEN DIVE INTO A POOL ON BOARD BOAT. BOAT ON ROUTE TO THE NEXT SMALL PACIFIC ISLAND, LITTLE RAPA 00:44:39 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE LITTLE RAPA, SMALL PACIFIC ISLAND. VILLAGE. WOMEN DO ALL THE WORK. LITTLE GIRLS MEET TOW-HEADED WESTERN GIRL. 00:45:26 - WOMEN WORKING IN FIELD, IRRIGATING. 00:46:01 - WOMAN MAKING POI FROM TARO. POUNDING TARO, WORK INTO PASTE, TIE UP IN LEAVES TO DRY 00:47:09 - MEN EXPLORE SMALL VOLCANIC PACIFIC ISLAND. MAN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS. MOUNTAINS LOOK LIKE STEPPED PYRAMIDS 00:47:14 - WILD GOATS ON MOUNTAIN TOP 00:48:09 - ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER POUNDERS OF POLISHED STONE. BURNED SHELLS IN THE EARTH. STONE AX. 00:49:13 - LINE OF WORKERS ON PATH CLEARING LAND, MEN SLIDE DOWN MOUNTAIN PUSHING BRUSH AND EARTH. WALLS EMERGE. BURIED HILLTOP VILLAGE 00:50:25 - HUGE FORTRESS UNEARTHED. 150 FEET HIGH. ARTIFICIAL HABITATION TERRACES SURROUND THE CENTRAL COLUMN. ANCIENT FORTIFIED MOUNTAIN VILLAGE. MEN PLANT A FLAG. 00:51:37 - MEN ON BOARD BOAT CAST FLOWER WREATHS INTO THE SEA. TRADITIONS. POLYNESIAN CUSTOM. 00:52:22 - LITTLE BLONDE GIRL CASTS HER WREATH INTO THE SEA 00:53:03 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-30