Dr. Louis T. Talbot admires the colorful headdress of a Chimbu chief while filming new picture in New Guinea. the land time forgot
/\ n the north flank of the Coral IlSea lies a land of stark primitive IJbeauty. It’s the island of New Guinea. It’s a land of dense rain, jungles and towering fog-shrouded mountains and peoples with little or no contact with the outside world. On a recent round-the-world mis sions survey Dr. Louis T. Talbot stopped off in New Guinea to super vise the filming of a dramatically beautiful new motion picture. One sequence in the new film, that is being released for nation-wide show ing this month, is a native sing-sing with its brilliantly colored bird of paradise dances. (For information about showings see coupon on page 30.)
The Chimbus lavishly use bird of paradise feathers. Right photo shows mission church. 45
N O V EM B ER , 1954
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