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Villages were perfect, the weather ideal, but Cameramen George Dromgold and James Shacklef ord found filming in the South Seas far from easy. Their adventures on Thursday Island, recently published as 'Two Lugs on a Lugger', are racily recounted by John Taylor.
GOVERNMENT FORBIDS ALL SCENES WITH NATIVES IN WARLIKE COMBAT ALL NATIVE WEAPONS REAL OR FAKES BANNED FEEL WE CAN GRAB OFF ENOUGH LONG SHOTS OF SPECTACULAR MASS ACTION TO INTERCUT WITH SAVAGE CLOSE SHOTS WILL MAKE TRY IF YOU OKAY REGARDS.
But the Studio doesn't.
WHAT NEXT? GET STUFF NO MATTER HOW YOUR PLANS O.K. SEND US FILM NOT CABLES GET GOING REGARDS.
The rainy season is just about to start. It is hot and humid. The boat is crawling with cockroaches, but they reckon that they will manage somehow.
PLAN OKAY FILM RECEIVED LOOKS LIKE REAL STUFF KEEP GIRLS AND WOMEN OUT OF FOREGROUND ALL SCENES NOT ENOUGH GRASS ON THEM TO GET BY CENSOR DON'T USE BLONDE WIG ON DOUBLE FOR STAR SHE REFUSES TO PLAY PART USE BRUNETTE WIG SHOOT BALANCE OF STUFF SOON AS POSSIBLE SEND US FILM NOT WEATHER REPORTS GOOD LUCK.
Wearily along the coast they go — marshalling four hundred canoes here — a thousand natives there. The rainy season starts. There isn't a pearler on the coast — "Although of course twenty-years ago there were hundreds" the locals say.
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Above: "The Blonde." Heading the opposite page is a picture of Pearl Fishers. Both illustrations are from "Two Lugs on a Lugger" {Hutchinson)
SHIP DOZEN NATIVE CANOES HOLLYWOOD FOR MATCHING SHOTS ■ WHY NUDE OLD MEN DANCING IN SCENE 172 WATCH EXPOSURE MORE CAREFULLY HURRY PEARLING SEQUENCE GET ALL ANGLES MAKE IT BIG VERY IMPORTANT REGARDS.
In return.
WILL SHIP CANOES IF GOVERN MINI PERMITS REGARDING EXPOSURE DID YOU MEAN CAMERAS OR NATIVES NUDE DANCING CAN BE CUT OUT WILL GET PEARLING SEQUENCE SAMARAI REGARDS.
Three weeks later.
ARRIVED SAMARAI NO WORD FROM YOU IS FILM O.K. TO DATE HOPE SHOOT PEARLING HERE REGARDS.
Then after a chase that has lasted nearly three months they catch up with an old pearler, the last on the coast, and he is making his last few dives before handing his boat over to the local pawnbroker.
Shackleford and Dromgold sigh with relief — They have worked long and hard.
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