ROMANTIC SOUTH SEAS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 674, 28 October 1933, Page 2

ROMANTIC SOUTH SEAS

IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY COMBINES BEAUTY WITH DRAMA MAJESTIC ON MONDAY Mr. Charles ' Chauvel's film "In the Wake of the Bounty," whieh opens Monday at the Majestic Theatre con'tains some exquisite views of the South S'eas. Not even in "Moana," "Tabu," and "White Shadows," which are regarded as setting the world standard in this sphere, will one find 'more lovely photography, more per'fect realisation of the lights and shadows in tropical landscape. The cameraman (Mr. Tasman Higgins) has realised the value of motion as a mean of filling out the flatness of screen perspective into a more stereoscopie effect and the gliding of the eamera to and fro across land and water gives a splendid feeling to depth and distance. Since the motive on which the scenic effects are strung is the mutiny on hoard the "Bounty", and the settlement of the siirvivors on Pitcairn Island, Tahiti and Pitcairn fo'rm the locations. There are pictures of mist floating over the ragged mountain peaks; and some remarkable glimpses of heavy seas dashirig against a reef. The dialogue is straight-forward, and ealculated to appeal to intelligent people. The film as a whole, too, has been most carefully and ingeniously planned. The most dramatic episode at the end is genuinely moving, and, !from a visual point of view has a dynamic quality which allows it to rank with the finest overseas work.