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FILMS, PRESS, AND RADIO ON THE EXPEDITION 



radio, and the Danish Government Fihn Committee. By far the biggest item 

 on the expenditure side was the cost of film material, and a number of 

 films were produced at a loss ; but this was covered by profits from articles, 

 picture series, and broadcasts to Denmark. Thus, for nearly two years the 

 expedition's information department carried out a valuable information 

 service on behalf of our country at no cost to the Government, while its 

 members also took a hand in spreading a knowledge of the expedition's 

 objects and methods. 



The Galathea was front-page news in Portugal, in West, South, and 

 East Africa, in Ceylon, India, Malaya, Siam, the Philippines, Indonesia, 

 Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. We were good "copy" in 

 every language, both for the local Press, radio, and film newsreels and 

 for the international Press agencies. And when we were over the Philip- 

 pine Trench, in July and August 1951, and nearly every hour brought its 

 new world record, the news was flashed to Renter's correspondent in 

 Manila, and from there to headlines all over the world — from Talking 

 Drums on the Gold Coast to Le Figaro and the New York Times. 



The information service had its most hectic hours in port. We hardly 

 ever had more than four days at our disposal, often only two, and would 

 be horribly conscious of the impossibility of discharging all our self-imposed 

 tasks. At the end of the stay we would hang dead-tired over the gunwale, 

 but with a fairly good conscience because we had accomplished most of them. 



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Filming Danish engineering 

 work at Loanda, Angola, 

 from a conveyor 

 bucket suspended over an 

 enormous dam. 



