Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek 8: Onderwijs aan de inheemse bevolking
New Guinea Chronicle 8
Objectcode
FI/1200/146
Information film about education. When a Papua Police patrol passes through a coastal village and are having a rest, the male inhabitants of the village ask about details about the training. Then images of the training school for police officers, who besides a physical training also receive traffic instruction. Photo's of elementary education as a preparation for vocational training. The function of a village-nurse is very important, and she gets a thorough training. More images of a leper hospital and training of young Papuans in various technical professions, and also the construction of a slipway in Manokwari.
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Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.25 Shots: Panorama of bay near Hollandia (Jayapura) where a patrol of the General Police arrives in a lake village. During the rest-break they tell the interested male inhabitants about their training. Trainee policemen doing the assault course in full kit at the training college in Hollandia, after which they get traffic instruction from a Dutch instructor by means of a scale-model, and bilingual (Dutch and Indonesian) instruction from a Papuan instructor in legal knowledge. 01.47 Class in elementary school where Papuan men and women are getting lessons in arithmetic with the help of an abacus from a Papuan teacher under the supervision of a Dutch master. Dutch language teaching from a Dutch woman teacher. Instruction on the human body from above-mentioned teacher and master. 02.30 Schooling of young Papuans constructing a small school building of their own. Papuan woman teacher leading ball-game. Pupils enter school-building where Dutch language is being written on the blackboard. Class teaching in the open with the help of abaci. 03.29 Building complex of boarding-school for household training for elderly Papuan girls, who start the day with morning exercises, given by Dutch woman teacher, followed by cooking lessons. Fish is being gutted, vegetables cut, in the garden the soil is being tilled with a hoe. The washing is done in buckets, the ironing on tables in the open. Baby care with the help of a doll. 04.54 Uniformed Papuan girls are following a course for village-nurse and are looking on how to put on a diaper on a doll. Later on real babies are being used for instruction. Trial period in polyclinic, where trainee measures length of baby, drips in ear, and inspects teeth. Village nurse comes out of the house with baby, hands over the baby to waiting father, who then shows his toddler to granddad. Village nurse gives inhabitants visual instruction on preparing food. Mothers with toddlers and babies are waiting their turn at the polyclinic after which mother hands over her baby from her shopping-bag to the village nurse, who weighs the child. A girl administers ear-drops. Village nurse is serving out free milk to the children. 07.31 Group teaching of arithmetic in the open in a leper hospital. Hospital ward. Fitting in with occupational therapy, girls are embroidering, boys are doing gardening and women are assorting peanuts. 08.06 Panorama's of residential area on the bay, in which a new church and a government building. House building using building blocks pressed of coral grit which have been made by boys of the junior technical school using moulds. Trainee carpenters are hanging windows and doors. Look into the workshop for trainees where they are planing and assembling. Instruction in car assembly (car mechanic), among other things calibrating the piston using a micrometer. Instruction in electrical engineering. Lathes operated by trainees during schooling for instrument maker. 09.30 Papuans working in work-shop in Manokwari where also a slipway is being built. Survey of the excavation where with the help of a theodolite the level is being fixed, shuttering is being made and rails are being winched onto their spot to be fastened there. Slipway under construction. 1032. End.
Title
Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek 8
Year
1957
Technical detail
Film type
Information film
Dating
01-12-1957
Black and white
Spoken comment
Dutch
Thesaurus terms
Geographic
Geographical term » Papua » Division Hollandia » Subdivision Hollandia » Hollandia
Geographical term » Papua » Division West New Guinea » Subdivision Manokwari » Manokwari
References
Links
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl
Copyrighthouder(s)
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