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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Shot by an unknown visitor, this gorgeous, silent color movie shows a trip to Tahiti in the 1960s, including shots in Vaitape, Papeete, Paea and elsewhere. It's possible this film was shot to create a documentary or industrial film, or simply that it is a well shot amateur home movie. Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, the South Pacific archipelago. Shaped like a figure-8, it's divided into Tahiti Nui (the larger, western section) and Tahiti Iti (the eastern peninsula). With black-sand beaches, lagoons, waterfalls and 2 extinct volcanoes, it's a popular tourist destination. Opening: blue ocean water near trees. Palm trees. A man walks near some trees and rocks (:08-1:17). Piles of open Tahitian nuts. Palm trees near the shore. Foggy mountaintop. A hut set back amongst the trees (1:18-3:10). Women fish in the ocean. A man throws a fishing net into th
