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Time passed them by!

Australia, 1951
film

A description of life in a New Guinea native village.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Growing up in New Guinea

Australia, 1965
Similarity: 78%

Boys and girls of Papua and New Guinea

Australia, 1963
Similarity: 75%

Pacific Island life: village life

United States, 1977
Similarity: 75%

Man and his world: Papua and New Guinea

Australia, 1970
Similarity: 75%

In the South Seas

Australia, 1949
Similarity: 74%

Way to a New World

Australia, 1959
Similarity: 74%

They were good times

Australia, MAY 2007
Similarity: 73%

Fiji: village life

Australia, 1977
Similarity: 73%

Out of time

Australia, 2000
Similarity: 73%

Children of Samoa

New Zealand, 1980
Similarity: 73%

Late in a wilderness

Australia, 1972
Similarity: 73%

With Bernadette in Papua New Guinea

Canada, 1981
Similarity: 73%

Lotu

Australia, 1962
Similarity: 72%

Faces in the sun

Australia, 1965
Similarity: 72%

People out of time

United Kingdom, 1968
Similarity: 72%

Visitors in time

United States, 1975
Similarity: 72%

New worlds for old

Australia, 1955
Similarity: 72%

My Father, My Country

Australia, 1987
Similarity: 72%
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