SEQ 1: ANTHROPOLOGIST'S INTRO

SEQ 1: ANTHROPOLOGIST'S INTRO................0:00:00

[1] IN THE DISTANCE A MAN STIRS THE MUD OF A RICE PADDY WHILE WATER BUFFALOES SAUNTER BY IN THE FIELD BEHIND. THE CAMERA PANS SLOWLY WITH THE ANIMALS BEFORE COMING TO REST ON TWO WOMEN TRANSPLANTING SEEDLINGS IN ANOTHER FIELD FINALLY THE SHOT WIDENS REVEALING THE WHOLE LANDSCAPE; FARMLAND, PALM TREES,THE SEA BEYOND.

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Commentary [James Fox]:
On the small island of Roti in Eastern Indonesia, the origins of all important activities require telling. In this film, we have set out to link images of life on the island with the words of their Rotinese origin and, thus, convey a sense of the poetry that underlies ordinary everday activities.

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According to the ancestors, all wealth came from the sea--the first seeds of rice and millet, the first water buffalo and even the first fire for cooking. But of these gifts from the sea, the foremost was the lontar palm--the tree that has given the Rotinese their distinctive way of life.