Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) Part 1: 00.31 Shots: Sunset seen from airplane on its way to Biak. 00.36 Air-shot of high speed launch, leaving white wake in blue sea. Air-cooled aircraft engine of amphibian aircraft flying over launch, moored at a buoy. 00.40 Pilot talking in mike. Air view of Biak town and the runway. Tarmac of airport Biak, with KLM Constellation in front of the station building and Kroonduif amphibian taxiing past. 01.07 Harbour panorama, newly built bungalows with red eternite roofing. Beautifully laid out gardens. A housewife watering the plants and a baby standing in the pen. A well maintained road. 01.34 Building under construction: Nigimij (New Guinea Import and Export Company) office. Bungalow with red roof. Telephone exchange. Lettering 'De Meerpaal' (the mooring-post) on the facade of the naval club, with personnel sitting outside having view of the ocean. 01.51 Boarding school at Merauke from which a long row of Papuan girls is leaving. Roomy tropical dwellings. The Resident's house. 02.24 Women doing the washing in communal wash-place. Two pupils riding on horseback on their way to school. Papuans levelling the grounds around newly built houses, delightful bungalows situated on a broad through road. 02.47 Ox-cart heavily burdened with slender stems. 02.56 Herd of cattle, grazing cows of tropical breed. Herd of goats scratching about. 03.08 Removing the thick bast of coconuts placed on poles that have sharp points and are driven into the ground. Mechanical harvesting of rice at pilot farm, using a combine. 03.27 Schooner moored on jetty, parents with children on the beach of Manokwari, sitting in the water, or lazing away in the shadow, while the children are amusing themselves in the shallow water. 03.57 Vista on the Manokwari harbour. 04.07 Shipyard Konijnenburg with modern side-launching yard. Small coasters on dry land. 04.21 Rustscraping Papuans. A couple of Papuans are painting a number on marine vessel's plaiting. A high yard's crane. 04.30 The bay, with the town on the far side. Delightful tropical dwellings and gardens with luxuriant vegetation. Cactus in bloom and orchids, little dog on stairs. 05.03 Big saw-shed of timber firm Manokwari with cyclone extraction installation. Moving a merbau trunk by dragline crane, operated by Papuan driver, who receives instruction from manager. Worker climbs a high stack of trunks. Stacking planks into high stacks on the timber-yard. 06.01 Forest of cocoa-trees, cocoa-fruits. 06.11 Citrus plantation with trees in rows, ripening grapefruits. 06.23 Papuan boy makes holes in the ground with pointed pole. The owner is looking on. Pineapple plantation. 06.35 Papuan boy tills the soil with hoe, bed with red cabbage under shadow shelter. Papuan boy with big heads of lettuce, peas beds with beanpoles. Owner himself harvests aubergines. 06.57 Fish-pond built with public funds, water supply through bamboo pipes, seedbeds marked with poles. A Javanese woman in small rice-plot. A boy takes with a net small fishes from a hatchery pond, puts them in an enamel dish to put them in a big pond. 07.32 END Part 2: 00.00 Poultry-farm of de-mobilized soldier who, together with his wife is feeding the younger and older leghorns near the hen-house. 00.19 Young European farmer calls his pigs, banging with a stick on an empty biscuit tin. Sow with piglets, pigs crowding around the trough. 00.36 The young farmer drives his herd of cattle onto the tree clad grassland. Farmer playing with his dog by the waterside, while the cows are driven back from the sea to the beach by boys. 01.04 Branch of richly flourishing orchids. Panorama of buildings around the bay of Manokwari. 01.17 Passenger ships moored on the pier of Sorong, where passengers are waiting with their luggage, while a big box is being loaded onto a truck. 01.35 White painted oil storage tank, long rows of Shell oil drums stacked three high. 01.41 Helmeted bugler blows horn signal, standing on hill above the barracks. Board at the entrance of the marine's barracks. Company of marine's marches along the camp, while at the same time a Papuan woman with her little daughter and a Javanese woman with her little son are passing by. 02.02 Residential area in Sorong with detached dwellings, built by the Nigimij for its employees consisting of roomy bungalows on grass lanes. Dwellings and telephone exchange under construction. Mosque, on the roof the half-moon with three-point star. Tropical church. Orient cinema. 02.36 Game moments of hockey match for girls and boys. Quartet of Papuan boys diving into the sea, and three European boys jumping into a swimming pool, having the day of their lives. 02.52 Papuan boys with a half drum little boat in river. 03.02 Nimble Papuan hands are grading copal (resin). 03.21 Departure of freighter from Sorong. 03.27 Victory freighter 'Schelde Lloyd' alongside the quay at Hollandia being unloaded, while a Fiat passenger car is being lowered carefully on the quay by the crane-driver. 03.52 With excavator coral debris is being loaded onto a truck. A mould with 5 segments is being filled with coral grit and automatically pressed into building blocks, which then are being stacked outside for drying. 04.25 Wall of brickwork, whereupon bricklayer puts a new layer. Corner profile is being erected. Pointing a brick-wall with mortar. The building under construction. 04.37 Papuan electrician sitting on wooden scaffolding of electricity pole fastens red and green wires to insulators. A house connection is being screwed down against the ridge of the roof. Painting the roof. 04.50 The built-up area on the head of the Humboldt bay. 04.59 Papuan family leaves dwelling-house and joins those waiting at the bus stop. When DAF bus of the GAD stops, all of them board the bus, sit down and the driver locks away the money. Bus drives off, and follows the hairpin road downwards. 06.09 Through-road near the Nigimij building. 06.20 European lady with three small children squats down with her purchase near a fish-monger on the road-side, the youngest child flops down on it. 06.45 Business-signs of Toko Bandung, of Restaurant Eng Nam, of Toko Eng Boo Hoo in Hollandia Harbour. 06.50 Office and print shop of the New Guinea Courier. Employees leaving the entrance of the Nigimij office building, in front of which lots of cars (mostly small Fiats) are parked. 07.02 Car traffic controlled by traffic police. Cars are climbing the road towards the town higher up. The yacht-club. 07.18 Sun-set over the sea. END