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| Martin Johnson gathers Vanuatu tribesmen in 1914 for a screening of Cannibals of the South Pacific, his documentary depicting them. He screened the film on the fly of a tent draped between trees in the Malekula jungle. |
| Boys, men, and uniformed soldiers assemble at The Leader Theater, Washington, D.C., for a January 9th-15th 1921 screening of Ship Wrecked Among Cannibals (1920). |
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| "We wanted to observe the reaction of primitives as "unspoiled" as these to motion pictures... |
| [Martin] got some photographs he had made of the big chief. When Nagapate saw himself, he stared incredulously, showing it to his two men, then all let out blood-curdling yells. Martin then spread before the black king a life-size colored poster of himself. Nagapate and his men were awed into a silence that lasted for fully an hour in which they'd alternatively touch the picture and then settle back on their heels to stare at it... |
| I strummed the ukulele a minute, tuning it, then began to sing, "Aloha." |
| Nagapate gaped at me, his head first on one side, then on the other. His men did the same. This became a rhythmic motion. Then to my astonishment Nagapate's mouth opened and out came a tribal chant time perfectly to the song I was singing...I stopped my song...Suddenly he [Nagapate] became aware of his own voice and stopped singing in embarrassment." |
| Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure (1940), pp. 127-133. |
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