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FILMS, PRESS, AND RADIO ON THE EXPEDITION 



Foreign cameramen came on board 



and we helped them to take newsreels of 



our gear and rare catches. 



completed in three hours, from the cultivation of the fields to the planting 

 of the young rice, the growth of green shoots, the ripening rice, the 

 harvesting, the carting away, and the threshing. We made over 25 educa- 

 tional shorts, plus three full-length films about the expedition for use 

 with lectures. On board the ship we filmed and took colour photographs 

 of working methods for scientific use. We photographed fishes and snails, 

 bristle- worms and dolphins, albatrosses and jellyfishes; and on shore we 

 got shots of penguins and elephant seals, of sugar-growing on Hawaii, and 

 of former Danish colonies. 



Like a magnet our ship attracted Danes from far and near. Three 

 farmers in Kenya flew 1,000 kilometres by chartered sports plane to meet 

 us. Old men who had not spoken Danish for 50 years came, as did young 

 emigrants full of homesickness. 



We gave 35 lectures with colour films about Denmark, and a like 

 number about the expedition. Reports about us exceeded 2,000 columns, 

 exclusive of picture series. Our film cameras took 30 kilometres of colour 

 film; we brought home 2,000 monochrome photographs and a similar 

 number of colour pictures, many for purely scientific use. A film taken 

 on board at Capetown by the African Mirror has been shown in every 

 little hamlet in British Africa which can boast of a corrugated-iron shed 

 of a cinema. We broadcast about Denmark and the expedition in London, 

 Plymouth, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Dakar, Capetown, Durban, Johannesburg, 

 Nairobi, Colombo, Calcutta, Singapore, Manila, Djakarta, Port Moresby, 

 Los Angeles, Mexico City, and once more in Plymouth and London. We 

 were TV stars in America, and broadcast in pidgin English to the natives 

 of New Guinea about the Danish royal family and Danish agriculture 

 and shipping. 



