ture series will welcome him back with 

 delight as they view his new film on the 

 grandeur, historic sites, summer activi- 

 ties, and wild life of this fabulous western 

 state. The sequence of Dr. Bailey's lec- 

 ture begins with springtime on the high 

 plains and Frontier Days at Cheyenne; 

 continues to old Fort Laramie north- 

 ward past the Salt Creek oil wells, taking 

 in the All American Indian Celebration 

 at Sheridan; pictures the magnificent Te- 

 tons and Jackson Lodge; shows some es- 

 pecially fine close-ups of grizzly bears at 

 Yellowstone Park; turns back in the fall 

 to Wyoming's eastern plains — Douglas 

 and the State Fair; lingers at the Star 

 Valley along the Idaho line and at the 

 picturesque Snake River, with its banks 

 in marvelous autumn color; and finally 

 ends at the Yellowstone River, where the 

 lodgepole forests are a fairyland in 

 winter dress. 



March 25— "Forbidden Is- 

 lands" of the South Pacific 



Aubert Lavastida 

 University of Michigan 



Mr. Lavastida is Director of the Mo- 

 tion Picture Production Unit at the 

 Audio- Visual Center of the University of 

 Michigan. In 1948 he began production 

 of the history-making Tropical Byways 

 Series, a group of films featuring remote 

 areas of the world, far from the normal 

 tourist routes. "Forbidden Islands'" of the 

 South Pacific is the sixth, and most recent 

 film produced for this series. It trans- 

 ports the viewer to enchanting Poly- 

 nesian islands that still retain much of 

 their primitive culture. Through the 

 camera's magic, we take off from the 

 island of Upolu in Western Samoa, 

 where tourists are still forbidden, and 

 travel westward by copra boat to several 

 far-flung islands of the Fiji group — 

 known of old as the Forbidden Islands. 

 On each island, we enter the heart of 

 village life — we relax in the islanders' 

 homes, share their meals, watch their 

 industry, enjoy with them their recrea- 

 tions, songs, and dances. A high point 

 of the film is the celebration of Queen 

 Elizabeth IPs birthday on the island of 

 Suva, with feasts, pagaentry, and tradi- 

 tional dances dating back to the days of 

 cannibalism. 



From "Greece" — April 22 lecture 



April 1 — Caribbean Crescent 



James Metcalf 

 Dowagiac, Michigan 



Another island hopping trip ! But this 

 time, across the Caribbean to South 

 America. First port-of-call is Jamaica, 

 vacation land supreme and the site of 

 ancient Port Royal. Then on to Grand 

 Cayman, thriving center of the Carib- 

 bean turtle industry, and inhabited by 

 the descendants of English pirates. A 

 stop at the new resort island of Cozumel 

 in the Yucatan Channel winds up with 

 a thrilling shark-spearing expedition, 

 filmed underwater. After a tour of the 

 ancient Mayan ruins of Tuluum, Mr. 

 Metcalf shows us Isla Margarita, the 

 "island of pearls," where pearls are of- 

 fered for sale by the half-bushel. Toward 

 the end of our travels along the Carib- 

 bean "crescent," we land at Surinam, or 

 Dutch Guiana, on the mainland of South 

 America. Here lives perhaps one of the 

 most polyglot populations on earth, and 

 the camera focuses on as many of them 

 as possible — from the primitive descend- 

 ants of escaped slaves to Eurasian women 

 with gold rings in their noses. The con- 

 trasts Surinam offers are seen in sharp 



relief as we first visit Djuka and Amerin- 

 dian villages and watch palm oil being 

 produced by primitive methods, and 

 then are shown the country's booming, 

 modern aluminum industry. 



April 8 — Indonesia 



John Nicholls Booth 

 New York City 



The five-year-old Republic of Indo- 

 nesia — which has been called a Pacific 

 Shangri La — is a romantic chain of is- 

 lands extending three thousand miles 

 from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. 

 Scientists regard Indonesia as one of the 

 oldest centers of human life — Java Man, 

 for example, lived there 300,000 years 

 ago. Now it is the sixth most populous 

 of the world's nations, and the third 

 richest country in natural resources —  

 potentially, one of the Far East's strong- 

 est nations. Out of this background, Mr. 

 Booth has created a film story that is an 

 exciting blend of cultural research, ad- 

 venture, exploration, and news headline 

 hunting! As his camera travels across 

 the island chain, we visit Java — with all 

 the glories of the Javanese Sultans, 

 shadow-puppet plays, Buddhist temples, 

 and Hindu shrines of antiquity; Borneo 

 — third largest island in the world, with 

 its tribes of ex-headhunters; Bali — lush, 

 tropical isle, famed for carvings, dances, 

 and gamelan orchestras, where poetry in 

 color, motion, and form abound; Su- 

 matra — which holds much of the wealth 

 of the Indies. 



April 15 — Gone With the 

 Wilderness 



Karl Maslowski 



Cincinnati Museum of Natural History 



"Just a short time ago, this was noth- 

 ing but a wilderness." How often we 

 hear that statement when visiting a new 

 housing or industrial development, or 

 outlying shopping center. Karl Maslow- 

 ski, board member of the Cincinnati 

 Museum of Natural History and writer 

 of a weekly nature column in the Cincin- 

 nati Enquirer for almost a quarter cen- 

 tury, has also seen the march of civiliza- 

 tion in the midwest — trees bulldozed, 

 fertile meadows cemented over, whole 

 marshes drained. He admits that this 



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