The Pitcairn People - Michl Technik

In 1790 the mutinous crew of HMS Bounty, led by Manxman Fletcher Christian, descendd on an uninhabited two-squaremile crop of volcanic rock in the Pacific Ocean. The nine sailors and 18 Tahitian men and woman burned the Bounty and disappeard into their own world, thousend of miles away from anywhere. There would be visits from outsiders, but it would be almost 200 years before the tiny community of Pitcairn Island would be fully dragged into the modern world. In 1962 a film crew captured a handful of days in the life of this extraordinary community, which numbered just 128. The Pitcairn People, from the BP Video Library, is an absobing look at this isolated society, ensuring a way of life which was about to be lost was recorded for posterity.