Boy Scouts Jamboree (1949)

Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material.
Title reads: "World Brotherhood: Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree Opens". Australian voiceovered newsreel material.
Wonga Park, Victoria, Australia.
LV Two Scouts looking over parapet onto GV camp and Pacific Jamboree.
LV GV Scouts marching up to camp.
MV Scouts with kitbags on back marching up to camp.
LV Scouts building bush hut. SV Scout tying rushes to framework.
LV Scouts putting finishing touches to totem pole.
LV GV Scouts eating at table. SV Scouts sitting round fire pan to scout cooking sausages.
VS Scouts swimming. VS of inspection by Australian chief scout. LV GV Pan scouts at gathering. VS of march past. LV Maori scouts singing and playing stick game. SV Pan Maori scouts playing stick game.
LV Moslems kneel to pray pan to leader. SV Muslims praying.
VS of Fijian scouts singing. LV New Zealanders doing Maori war dance / haka. (Most of the New Zealanders are of European origin)
Possibly connected with 49/6 - MD.
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When I watched New Zealand sports teams performing their crazy Maori dances I thought this was a recent phenomenon. I turns out they played native even in 1949 and even earlier.