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Pacific: Discovery And Development

Reel Number: 221522-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Pacific

Location:

TC Begins: 17:41:45

TC Ends: 17:52:12

Duration: 00:10:27

Pacific: Discovery And Development Encyclopaedia Britannica 17:42:07 Strange map diagram map w/ animation showing trade routes & unknown parts of the world; dates & routes of early explorers opening up the world. Animation of ships blown west. Route showing first European contact w/ Australian coast. 17:45:16 1768 & Capt. Cook voyage routes lined on map showing exploration of southern & northern hemisphere. 17:46:34 1788 & annexation of Australia for Great Britain. Russian fur traders & others settling North America & US expansion. 17:48:18 Pacific Islands annexed by European countries; Alaskan Islands. 17:49:00 Animated cannons firing indicating war w/ Spain; settlement of war w/ various islands 17:49:22 Japan as rising power & its expansion. German Pacific islands to Japan. 17:49:57 Panama canal effect on shipping; island developments. Map w/ flags covering Pacific. 17:50:43 Japan, its bases & 1941 attack shown in stylized animation; figures of soldiers spreading. Ring of steel. Retreating and dissolving of Ring of Steel. 17:51:52 Stylized Atomic Bomb explosion turns into question mark. History; Educational Film; Exploration; Explorers; Stylized Animation; NOTE: Good color & good stylized animation.

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