00:00When she boarded the boat to Samoa, Francis felt she was finally an equal, creative part
00:11of their joint enterprise.
00:14They were a team.
00:18Francis wrote, this is a pregnant void, a fertile state of no mind.
00:26This is non-preconception, the beginning of discovery.
00:37In the 1920s, America had created a mythology of the Pacific peoples and places that spoke
00:44more of the Western fantasies and hang-ups than about Oceania's actual islands.
00:52This new film was to be a romance of Polynesian primitivism by searching for a tropical Nanook.
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