A black-and-white travelogue from the Port O’ Call Series produced by William M. Pizor, “Isle of Isolation: Bali” takes the viewer to the 1930s-era Indonesian island. No larger than Delaware with a population of “a million happy people,” the narrator explains how Bali is a world apart from other cultures. The film shows the viewer a variety of scenes from the island (mentioning at mark 01:25 that it is primarily “a land of women” outnumbering the men by 70 percent), including a Balinese village (mark 02:10) arranged in compounds. There’s also a visit to a Balinese market where topless women (as is the practice in Bali, we are told) act as vendors for a variety of goods. Men “do as little as possible” we’re told at mark 04:25, other than bearing the responsibility for cultivating rice fields and participating in cock fighting, as the camera pans a row of roosters in their coops followed by a scene from one fight. We learn of Balinese cremation and funeral rituals starting at mark 05:39 and watch as a young boy performs a ritualistic dance (mark 06:30), followed by scenes of other Balinese dances.