FILMS, PRESS, AND RADIO ON THE EXPEDITION 



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National-service men from the Galathea on an excursion to Den Pasar, Bali. 



Let nie try to convey some idea of one such visit, taking at random the 

 capital of an exotic country with a small Danish community consisting 

 mainly of business men. The Danish consulate had arranged for a Press 

 conference an hour after our arrival; that is to say, as soon as the official 

 visits had been exchanged with the local civil and naval authorities and 

 the Embassy or Consulate. Reporters and cameramen flocked on board 

 the moment the uniformed officials had left. But even before the arrival 

 of these officials, the information service jeep had been swung ashore 

 to enable our photographers to start work. Possibly they would go to the 

 airport to buy tickets for a jungle station where elephants were known to 

 work; possibly drive 200 — 300 kilometres to get pictures of a rubber 

 plantation or ricefields; possibly wander about the town, taking shorts of 

 the colourful street life and temples. The rough programme had been 

 worked out in advance and sent on by airmail to local Danish represen- 

 tatives, without whose aid we should have been unable to carry out our 

 work in the time at our disposal. 



On our route we encountered every shade and colour of skin, and every 

 category of journalist, from inexperienced small-town news-hunters to star 

 reporters who rapidly grasped the most involved scientific problems, and 

 had obviously read the subject up beforehand. A Press conference would 

 begin with a sketch of the expedition's history and the peculiar method 



