SOLOMON ISLANDS SAGA: FIFTY YEARS FOR CHRIST IN THE PACIFIC ISLES

A white missionary alights a boat onto a beach, putting his arms about four Solomon Islanders, runs off into the bush, waving the camera after him. Long Intertitle extolling the work of the Methodist Mission to the Solomon Islands as “one of the greatest achievements in history.”
Chapter One:
Portraits of Solomon mission workers. [John F. Goldie]. Warriors welcome party of a dugout canoe. War dance. Mock battle. Missionaries with wives. Sailing through islands. Bombed out vessels from W.W.II. DC-3 taking off from airstrip in jungle. Sailors parading through built up area.
Chapter Two: ‘Where thy Wide Ocean Beats on Island Shore.’
Village scenes. Qantas DC-3 on tarmac. Children digging a trench. Missionaries at various stations.
Intertitle: “Teaching in the name of Christ.” Missionary teaching a class. Children digging in a plantation. Missionary applying a bandage to girls leg.
Chapter Three: ‘The Church at Work, at Worship.’
Chapel overlooking inlet. Solomon Island congregation in white dresses and skirts. Service inside church. Islanders making human pyramid, traditional drumming. Mothers with babies.
“Healing in the name of Christ.” Missionary woman helped onto dugout. Leper colony nursing. Swab testing. Can of ‘Mainstay cod liver oil’. Children performing nativity scene.
Sign reads: “This building was presented to The Methodist Mission by The People of New Zealand per The Lepers Trust Board, October 1949.” D.C. Alley Memorial Hospital. Infant welfare.
Chapter Four: ‘What God hath Wrought.’ Church ceremony. Choir. Young men exercising in a field. Traditional war dance. Villagers offer food. G.I. Laurnson, Stan Andrews.