1972 Western Samoa Documentary 

All I can do in this lockdown is watch your videos and make me heart sick with longing to be back to my homeland. I am 40yrs old immigrated to NZ at 6yrs but I now feel the calling of my home to return. I've been back numerous times but like my parents before me I know I will retire and live my last days there.

If that was filmed back in 1972 I was 10th grader or sophomore in high school. I love all those beautiful memories of growing up back home in Samoa. Those were the happiest Ive ever been.

Thank you for this.

I’m so glad I came across this old and precious footage of my homeland❤️❤️ I sent it to my family GC for them to watch it 😊 Thanks for the upload 🎉

Pure & Organic!!.......I looooooove your work!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Love watching your uploads. 🙌🏽 very rare footage haven’t been seen on RU-vid before. Thank you ❤️

Renaissance and the rebirth of “fa’a-Samoa” as alluded to by the late Dr Fanaafi, reverberates a powerful message. Especially with the onset of modernity. Quite befitting!.. One, therefore has to applaud our people’s resilience outright. However, as the narrator so aptly put it, that in the end, our choices and the ever condescending presence of our heritage, subjected us into a most formidable “duality”. Fast forward 50yrs, this is a contentious issue facing modern Samoa... Somehow, another pulsating and memory jogging film from our not too distant past. NB: Jet engines were yet to see our shores. Obviously, that was the sister aircraft to the “Pili” ie. Losi in heydays Polynesian Air, and a much younger Tupuola Eli had a very vibrant hairline. Fanaafi on the one hand, beaming with a scholastic approach on things and on the other, an air of euphoria (re: nationalistic/patriotic sentiments) prevalent on Independence Day,..quite vivid indeed!. Fa’afetai tele! Le Faleo’o for taking us back in time. Fa’amanuia le Atua i le galuega matagofie!!

Love watching these videos and good to see the life I was brought up with. I did see my aunty Leaupepe Faimaala Taulapapa, the first woman in the Samoa Parliament since independence. Thank you for sharing

Thank you faleo'o this video was nice. Good to see the beginnings of our people during the time of independent they worked so hard to get to that time and place such an honour to be from such a strong, determined people who never gave up all for colonisation! like still keeping aspects of the Fa'a Samoa alongside Christianity. They look beautiful, Free and happy, slim, healthy looking size very different to nowadays 🤣🤣. Amazing thank you for the upload seki!!

Good to see this video once again, From the first time I did seeing decades ago " Seeing FETAUI MATAAFA! Also LEOTA Ituau Ale the speaker of the parliament/has MATAAFA FAUMUINĀ MULINUU II/has Priminster. Also the matai fono of ASAU village/as the TUU'A" FAO UESILI, and TUFUGA, one of the straight grey hair seeing on SAMOA FALE. I was also working has chainsaw man cutting those logging down under the AMERICAN sawmill in ASAU, where I had very experienced operating 26 tons forklift, also before I left for NZ... Good to see once again,, thanks for the video....

Thanks for sharing!❤❤❤.Beautiful memories, will be treasured forever. Noticed Uncle Fao Isaia from Asau,and Lavea (Leitu) from Safotu.❤

I was only 15, a sophomore in high school. Im now 68.

Manatua ai pea si o'u grandpa fili afa aso uma .

Talofae nai tuaa ua fail failagi le folauga

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