Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.00 Images of the Baliem Valley seen from the surrounding mountains. On the slopes cultivated plots and in the valley fenced-in huts with vast compounds. 00.29 Taken with telelens: woman leaves round hut. 00.35 Papua tills soil with a digging-stick and turns the loosened turfs manually. 00.56 Papuan women with head nets loosen ubi's (a kind of sweet potatoes, the size of sugar beets) with digging-sticks. 01.04 Collecting tomatoes in carrying nets for which missionary pays with loose salt. 01.26 Old man, his arms around his daughter, informs her of the death of her mother. 01.33 Three chattering women sitting behind nets with beans. Missionary transfers tomatoes from carrying nets into net sacks and pays with salt for a portion of beans. 01.54 Villagers are streaming from community compound. Missionary on his way to his post, meets with Papua with white cabbage, greets him and is having a little chat with him. Close-up of full-grown white cabbage and strawberries in a garden. Missionary takes leave and continues his way along the long straight road. 02.33 Sheep, reared in the tropics, Papuan attendant takes pail of water into the chicken-run. Missionary caresses a little group of goats and arrives at his post. 02.59 Dogs are chasing stray half-wild pig, missionary's wife feeding imported pigs. Missionary with younger colleague, the latter's son and two dogs climbing over and under protective fences around their post and around this Papuan village. 03.49 Little arrows land aside of target in the ground. Little group of young Papuan archers playing with bow and arrow. 04.00 The older missionary conversing with a mother about her children, while his younger colleague is having a little chat with woman, coming from big hut. 04.22 Missionary indicates missing finger of the woman and continues to talk a little more. Hair nets on poles and bracelets to the memory of their deceased. 04.42 Piper Cub of the Missionary Flying Service in full flight, a second plane taking off, looked after by Papuans. 04.57 Filmed from the starting plane: vegetation dashing along, sinking away as the machine gets off the ground. Images of the ravines around the valley, in which the mission post and the settlement are. 05.24 Attendant of the meteorological station studies registration slip. Weather station with instruments and precipitation basin. 05.31 Flag parade of the Papua Police Force at government post, at which the commander brings the salute during the flag hoisting. Papuans are looking on from behind the barbed wire fence. 05.45 Inspector of the Civil Service in uniform embarks with his team into small motor flat and pushes off, after which the little vessel ascends the broad river along Papuans on a raft and finally courses onto the bank. 06.29 Village on mountain slope, which is climbed by team. 06.48 Long atap covered huts, built side by side on the terrace. 06.51 Inspector shakes hands with headman and talks with him through an interpreter. 06.59 Papuan attendant inspects patient's foot soles, disinfects left buttock, puts injection needle into the flesh, puts the syringe on to it and presses the piston. After this he puts a plaster on to the left lower leg. 07.18 Inspector amongst tribal heads, sitting with his back against a hut, discusses the local problems. 07.29 A piglet is being killed, sparks in a handful of straw are blown and a log-fire is built. 07.43 The killed pigs are held over the fire to singe off the bristles, after which the skin is scraped clean with the fingers, and then it is cut open with a small bamboo knife. 08.00 Bunches of leaves for the stew pit are carried along, while big stones are being put on to the fire. Leaves are spread on to the bottom of a shallow pit, the hot stones carried on with forked poles or with liana bearers are put on to these leaves. Potatoes go on these, then alternately leaves, stones, vegetables and as top layer the meat. Then pit is sprinkled with water, covered with leaves which are bent together and tied up. 08.49 Witch doctor announces the reason of the feast. 08.57 Inspector and tribal heads are awaiting the preparation of the food, sitting near the pit. 09.05 Inspector offers a big shell to the headman expressing his thanks for his hospitality and a hunting knife to another headman. In the end he gives a roll of home-grown tobacco for all of them. 09.22 Inspector sitting between the headmen feasting upon the food. 09.30 Close-up of two women with head nets being greeted by the two missionaries and the little son with the so-called 'knuckle greet' 09.45 The missionaries visit the cottager and make it clear to him that they want to buy wood, indicating his axe and tree trunk. 10.09 Papuans fell together a slender trunk on breast's height, cutting it immediately in handy pieces. 10.25 Chopping a piece of wood. Sticks are put into the cleft on both sides, so that the wood keeps under tension, thus facilitating the chopping. 10.41 Missionary pays the price agreed upon in shells. 10.52 Missionaries continue their way, the little son on his father's shoulders. They meet a villager who takes the little son on his shoulders. Together they descend to a couple of huts. 11.21 Long and straight path leads onto the mission post, on which a young missionary teaches a Papua how to cycle. 11.46 Older missionary makes first an older than a younger Papua speak a word in their language, while young Papuans from the coast in training to be teachers, are looking on. 12.09 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.30 Project leader pushes his way across field cleared from tree stubs and through remnants of ashes of burnt trees. 00.40 A cater-pillar bulldozer pushes and pulls trees down, after which two dozers pile the trees. 01.35 Dutch instructor teaches Papua how to operate a dragline for digging a trench on the stubbed field. 01.49 Water reservoir near dammed swamp river and irrigation canal controlled by small sluice. 02.00 Papuans greasing bulldozer with grease gun on instruction of Dutch instructor, after which cater- pillar tractor pulls heavy disc plough across the field. Covered and uncovered trial plots, where Dutch expert inspects the plants, taking samples with Papuans, after which the plants are sprayed against insects. The rice is harvested and threshed mechanically with a Claes Combine piloted by a Papua. The grains of rice are squirted into a cart, which is drawn away with a tractor. 03.52 Harvested rice is being poured out on jute sacks for drying in the sun. 04.01 Narrow-gauge railway-track on which small loc draws tip-lorries with sand supplied from hundreds of miles away. 04.14 Building of a drying-shed by Papuans who operate a concrete mixer, and taking the mortar to the building site. 04.26 Little houses for the native workers and a local shop. 04.34 A road-plane which smoothes the field for the construction of an airstrip for small planes, which must provide the supplies. 05.00 Survey vessel HMS Snellius on the new slipway in Manokwari. Papuans carry out maintenance work on the ship's propeller under the guidance of a Dutch instructor. Afterwards this propeller is being hauled onto its place. View of the fully occupied slipway. 05.29 Tower derrick with a thirty meter span lowers steel girder onto pontoon. A couple of shipyard workers working on the pontoon. Front view of the ship yard where two drag boats of the Hydrographic Service, the Snellius and a pontoon are being serviced. 06.01 Scaling of the keel by a Chinese, a Dutch and a Papuan worker (close-ups) Painting of the hull of the Snellius, of which the bow rises high up. 06.25 Old Papua heating grease, with which he greases a transport chain. 06.35 Ship yard manager and commander of the Snellius inspecting the ship, on which the flag is waving already, crew members are bringing foodstuffs on board, and hawsers and gangway are drawn away. 06.59 The current of the launching installation is switched on, after which the ship glides down the slipway in vertical position, while shipyard workers and crew are looking on, engines and winches are turning, and Jan Zwart, head of the drawing room, is watching the chain. After that the workers are busy working on the yard cars. 07.51 The coaster Cycloop is being winched onto the vacant place of the 3500 tons slip yard. 08.30 The special lifting installation for smaller craft of up to fifty tons 08.35 Interior of workshop, where Papuans operate lathes and planing machine. An electro motor is hoisted away. 09.09 On the slipway the Cycloop is being cut in two by a blow-torch, while propeller is being scaled. 09.30 In the meantime construction parts are being readied in the workshop, using pneumatic riveting hammer, drill and heavy column drilling machine. 09.57 The Cycloop burnt into two. Both halves have been torn apart. A heavy pump body is hoisted out of it. A foreman gives instructions, a Papua is looking on. 10.42 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.31 Image: widening bow-wave makes floating shore vegetation dancing. 00.37 Water-birds scared out of their rest flying low over the river in front of the boat flapping their wings. 01.08 Winding dirty brown river hemmed in by jungle as seen from the motor-boat. 01.17 The interpreter's arm waves in a peaceful way towards invisible occupants of a house built in the tree-top. 01.25 Group of Papuan villagers seen on their backs, completely naked, wiggling their legs, hands in their sides, towards the approaching boat. While headman manoeuvres his prau on the river, villagers on the shore are waving to the passing motor boat, gliding along on the water along three Papuans standing in a creek. 01.51 Mooring on the upper course of the river, where doctor with his assistants gives injections contra yaw to the villagers queuing up in the streaming rain. 02.17 Deceased put down on bamboo frame, widow keeping watch with death frame of her husband, a child on her back, and her legs wrapped in straw as a sign of mourning. 02.32 Papua with stone axe descends skilfully the long ladder of his house built on bamboo poles and starts carving on the stem of his prau. 02.52 Brawny Papuan rowers, standing in their expedition praus rowing past a vacated village, where one Papua is staying back in a tree, then goes onto a jetty farther down the river. 03 24 Papua meets the disembarked expedition members, assists the camera man to disembark, where the doctor shakes hands cordially with two headmen in clothes. 03.38 Expedition members, doctor, missionary and assistants having a meal together. 03.43 Papua tears the green bask from a coconut with his teeth, other Papua 'fleas' the head hair of villager and puts the salt crystals into his mouth. 03.53 Women with children in their arms or on their backs are waiting patiently for the doctor. 04.06 Assistant with box full of little bottles with penicillin. Doctor in lengthy discussion with headman, while assistant fills syringe. 04.21 Doctor examines hand palms and foot soles of Papua on traces of infection, disinfects with cotton-wool left buttock and presses syringe into body part. 04.35 Close-up of Papua with exuberant nose decoration, assistants deliberating near improvised table. 04.41 Villagers near construction of new community building, girders are being tied to poles with lianas, while missionary and Papua are looking on, arms on each other's shoulders. 05.00 Close-up of Papua with big hole in septum. Doctor takes leave of man with nose bone. 05.09 Fleeing village dog, complete male population waves a good bye from the shore, making gestures of peace. 05.24 Travel prau of the expedition, made from hollow coco palm trunk and propelled by standing rowers, passes a couple of Papuans wiggling their legs, sails along a deserted tree house and a village partially wrecked by head-hunters. Water birds flying away with flapping wings. 06.00 Hostile looking Papuans armed with spears and bows and arrows, but wiggling their legs. 06.15 Prau slides onto muddy river bank, after which headman shouts a command and villager blowing a wooden horn. 06.33 Doctor and missionary are deliberating. Assistant applies injection. 06.43 Sleeping Papua using skull as a head rest, assistant injects man with sucking-pig in his arms. 06.53 Villager climbs high ladder to his tree house. Missionary counts villagers and composition of a family. Assistant goes on giving injections. 07.18 Village house in front of which man is sleeping, tree house in which widow with children is hiding and is being persuaded to come down by the doctor on the ground and the police interpreter on the wobbly landing. 07.41 When travel prau approaches the river bank the doctor goes behind the woman and her children to the village. 07.55 Close-up of Papua with nose decoration and shell decoration on his forehead. Widow joins the villagers. 08.02 Doctor examines a sucking-pig, while mother with child is waiting. 08.11 Assistants near medicines in readiness on an improvised table. Interpreter calls up the people, the doctor continues to deliberate and the villagers are waiting. 08.25 Doctor makes charming gestures over the body of a man fainted from fear. He fans with his hands over the motionless figure and blows over him, while population is looking on fascinated. 08.39 Man is on his legs again, the doctor blows another couple of times, assistant gives encouraging pat on his head, all this in front of the bystanders. 8.50 Mother with crying child in her arms, fathers with crying children, who are getting an injection. 09.11 Missionary resumes counting. Shots of villager with yellow head-band, of man with piece of bone through the septum and of older villagers. 09.37Group of villagers sitting on ladders under shelter of community house. Travel prau nears bank, while children from the other side of the river jump into the water. 09.44 Under orange coloured sky the travel prau sails towards the setting sun. 10.11 End.

Description (source: beeldengeluid.nl): SHOTS: Film title, sub title, names of Camera-man, commentator and finishing body, projected on Netherlands New Guinea map. 00.31 Impression of the forest complex Oransbari. Dump of cut trees. 00.39 Papuan forest worker fixes a haulage cable around a tree trunk, which, hanging on a timber wagon on tracks, drawn out of the forest by a Hyster bulldozer, but gets stuck between trees alongside the path, the tracks of the dozer running idle. 01.19 Bulldozer with timber wagon, on which tree is hanging, rides on the forest trail. 01.39 Survey of temporary dumpsite where two forest workers are sawing a trunk into pieces. A dog, sitting on the trunk, is scratching itself. 01.55 In the forest the big boughs of a cut tree are being cut down with a whip-saw. 01.59 A small track crane lift trunk pieces onto a trailer, which then goes onto the coast. A same kind of crane as on the dumpsite is stacking the pieces on the quay when the trailer is riding along, workers are fixing the hoisting hooks onto the heads of the pieces and the crane driver makes the jib turn around. 02.49 Crane loads piece onto a pontoon. Tug boat draws pontoon laden with trunks of iron wood through the bay en route to the saw mill in Manokwari at a distance of 70 km and a ten hours' travel. 03.19 The train nears the pier, while Gerard Borghart, technical manager of the saw mill, is looking on from the quay how the pontoon, laden with 200 tons of wood, is being moored. 03.40 Fresh water ponds, in which the trunks will stay for some time. A trunk is being hoisted on to a trailer and drawn by a tractor to the hall of the mill. 04.06 Joop Munnik, chief of the mill, giving instructions for hoisting. 04.09 Trunk is being rigged onto the saw carriage, chocked, and being forwarded to the belt saw for the first cut. 04.35 A 5 cm slab is being cut, drops onto the roller course to be taken to the frame saw, which makes planks out of it, which drop onto a sorting band. Some shots in between: Papuans operating machines. 05.30 A 10 cm slab is being fed onto the frame saw, after which beams are being taken away via the roller course. 05.52 At the end of the sorting band lighter beams are being stacked. 06.00 Then a special Hyster Yardmaster rides over the stack, lifts it between its wheels, leaves the hall, and unloads it on the timber yard. 06.38 Look into the grinding shop under the supervision of Geert Blaauw, with close-ups of the driving mechanism, the grinding of a belt saw and grinding machines operated by local personnel. 07.10 Storage of cut wood. 07.20 Temporary sign post. 07.27 Land rover pick-up drives through the exploitation complex. High rising forest giant. 07.40 Papuan woodcutter climbs high scaffolding around big trunk with plank roots and cuts into the trunk with axe, climbs down rapidly, after which tree drops down under tremendous noise. Guus Wessels, first man of the mill, and Papuans are looking on. Shot in between: Dog getting out of the water with piece of wood. 8.37 Forest worker attacks big trunk with axe. 08.41 Another forest worker gets down the scaffolding ladder, sits down on fallen trunk to see how his tree plunges down. His colleague (see 08.37) follows suit and runs for safety when his tree falls. 09.08 Falling trees causing clouds of leaves and dust flying about. 09.42 End.

Description (source: Beeldengeluid.nl): 00.20 Image: Marina in Hollandia Harbour, where young sailors are preparing mast and boom on sailing boats at anchor, they hoist the sails, or are just loafing with their feet in the water. 00.10 Signal flags bearing the letters Y and P are being hoisted on the mast. Boy paddles his sailing boat backwards into open water. The public is watching the start. 00.30 Girl tightens foresail and main sail from the bottom of the boat. A couple of girls round a buoy. Instructions from the shore with a big megaphone. A small boat sailing before the wind. A boat belonging to the free class rounds a buoy. 01.03 National flag flanked by both letter flags. Competitors testing their home-made match speedboats. Participator kneels down into the narrow cockpit. The engines are adjusted and started. 01.34 Four boats tearing along a pegged out course on Sentani Lake. The tournament leader follows the boats with a pair of binoculars, registering the time with stopwatches. 02.09 Boat passes the finish, while black-and-white chequered finish flag goes down and the boat runs easy with a sharp turn. 02.22 Young spectators in deck-chairs. 02.28 Water skier starts backside first, makes a couple of turns and kicks away his left ski. 02.55 Seen on the tanned back: a water skier starting a slalom. 03.02 A couple of girls are relishing fruits. Boy and girl starting, who then do some acrobatics on ski's, watched by the public from the shore. The two fans outwards and back to the stern-wave, getting back to the landing stage, where they go underwater. 04.02 Play ground of school complex where children are playing with a ball, drinking lemonade, are playing quoits and are doing sack-races, under great interest of friends and parents. 05.00 Papuan boy climbs a high mast, from where he takes a rolled payoong (umbrella), throws it downwards. After getting down he is greeted by his supporters. 05.23 Civil servant in uniform fires a starting shot with a pistol for a relay race between Hollandia-Stad (Town) and Hollandia-Haven (Harbour), after which the runners set off. Checkpoint along hilly road where a runner has dropped down. 05.53 Finish where Papuan participant arrives first under great enthusiasm. 06.01 Photographer on the side in the middle of numerous people, watching dances by a group of Kapauku from the Wissel Lakes (Paniai Lakes). 06.23 Papuan dancers, white painted and provided with oblong drums, performing a rhythmical dance. 06.46 Two outriggers with white painted Papuan dancers mooring at the grassy bank, where lots of spectators are waiting. Dancers, amongst whom a bow-and-arrow marksman performing a prolonged group dance, accompanying themselves with drums. 07.41 Dancers armed with lances and adorned with long plumes. 07.50 Papuan girls with reed aprons and white bras performing a dance. 08.11 Another group exclusively of men performing and accompanying themselves with drums. 08.33 Ring-dance of Papuan dancers. 08.40 Bare-footed dance legs and the neighbour's legs in red and black football stockings and brown shoes. 08.43 White painted dancers in red skirts. 08.55 Dancing in two rows the dancers move forward behind the Dutch flag. 09.09 Then again in single file along the public. 09.13 Group stops and bows in front of the public. 09.18 New Guinea map with white letters: Released by Rank Film Distributors (Holland) N.V. 09.24 Text: 'The End'. Device of the Netherlands Government Information Service. 09.30 End

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.22 Trainee Papuan civil servants, arrived per pick-up, enter village where the village head greets the leading Dutch civil servant, the group is divided into two, of which each gets a task of its own. The inhabitants, convoked by the village head, are looking on when the candidate police-officer interrogates a person, while a colleague in the second group collects taxes in cash, and immediately after he renders simple medical attendance. 01.38 Students of the training college established in Hollandia (Jayapura) arriving with bearers per service prau in lake village, crossing river-bed, taking a bath in a little lake and building a bivouac of their own with palm leaves. Student drinks coconut milk. 02.38 Agricultural experimental station Kota-Nica, situated in valley near Hollandia, where young Papuans are being trained to be agricultural advisers and where they under supervision of Papuan and Dutch instructors till the ground, are sowing seeds by hand and mechanically, in the nursery-garden they prune and spray, and they service farm machinery, amongst others mini-tractors. 03.58 Board: 'Forestry Course Kota-Nica' of the same training centre, where sixteen boys with simple schooling are being trained in botany and soil science, and also in geodesy by means of a scale-model. Close-ups of round promotion shields with Dutch or Indonesian texts for the benefit of flora and fauna conservation projects. Students making shields. Measuring the diameter of a tree-trunk to be felled in the jungle. From nursery- greenhouse young plants are wheeled outside to be planted in flower-beds. Spraying a tree. Pruning a young tree. 05.36 In a two-years' crash course of the Directorate of Public Works, Papuan boys with only a couple of years' elementary education, are surveying a future proposed route with the help of a theodolite and sticks for the Land Registry and Mapping Service. They cut away the undergrowth. 06.12 No-smoking-sign in Dutch and Indonesian at the training for assistant weather observer. A weather balloon is held in readiness, wind speedometer and direction indicator are being observed. The balloon is released and followed with special glasses. On a weather-chart the observations about height and speed are being registered. Student fills in coded observations in English on blackboard. Instructor wires in Morse clear weather reports, noted down by the students in code groups, after which they themselves operate the Morse keys. 07.13 Future transmitter watchman receives instruction on transmitter station how to tune in a radio transceiver. The counter-clerk in the Post and Telegraph Office learns about registered postal articles, the sales of stamps and the stamping of air-mail. 08.07 Students in uniform follow a ten months' training at the junior sea training school to enter into the Netherlands New Guinea Navy. Inside there are theoretical class lessons, outside on the training vessel they learn how to work the signal flags, 'the ship with a little garden', where they also receive training in lowering loads into the hold as well as lowering a life-boat. Trainee climbs a climbing-rope barefooted in Papuan manner. Instruction about the manual manipulation of signal flags for international signal code, about how to operate a Morse-key, rope-splicing, the maintenance of marine engines and using the ship's compass. 09.39 Trainee plots the ship's course using the compass during a trip with the government's ship. A light beacon is fitted with a gas cylinder. The crew hauls the bottle up a steep reef and puts it into a steel housing. 11.03 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.22 Shots: Papuan casts off the ship's hawsers from the jetty, from where sympathizers wave a good-bye to the resident, the sectional commander of the General Police, doctor with a small staff and officials. Passage of the Humboldt Bay with two sailing yachts. Passengers and crew on deck having a chat during the trip. Changing into a sloop. Village head of Sarmi greets visitors. Company climbs hill. 01.27 Small Church of the mainly protestant population. Images of the accommodations, amongst which are a hospital and a dispensary. Doctor treats patients on the veranda. Papuan nurses attend to toddlers of the children's part in play-pens in the open. Papuan nurse lifts suckling from its little bed, hands it over to the mother sitting on bed, who suckles the baby. Lawn with drying laundry. Wrecks of Japanese light tanks. 02.54 Trip on jungle river, meeting a lonely prau. Uniformed head of village Pioniersbivak (Pioneer Bivouac) is waiting, chickens scratching about, model of 'Kolff' on top of an atap roof. Resident in shorts and shirt enters village, while doctor treats inhabitants. Visitors go down steep hill, head of the village gives a salute and company goes back in prau to the 'Kolff'. 04.58 Making headway through narrow passage, rich in fish, where water-birds are flying up. Prau alongside 'Kolff' at anchor. Doctor, leaning over the bulwark, inspects Papuans, who had been treated by him before. Toddler is lifted out of the prau on board by his father, doctor treats the child. Head of the village joins the trip and shows the company his humble village and inhabitants of the Bagusa tribe with 150 souls. From the forest emerge a man and a woman with child. Close-ups of the family, for which the visitors are showing interest. 07.03 Dutch flag in top, mascot on deck during trip on the Pacific Ocean, school of dolphins swimming ahead of the bow. Three saw-fishes carved of wood on the roof of a small building. Medical examination of mothers with children arrived per prau in the field laboratory in accordance with a UNICEF project. 08.35 Woman assistant performs blood tests with simple shake device and microscope. Phials for penicillin are handy, from which inhabitants and many children are getting a shot in the buttocks. Company leaves the lake-dwelling across staging and goes on in motor outrigger. 10.22 End

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.07 SHOTS: Uniformed official of the Civil Service crosses the Merauke River per motor launch, wades through muddy bank towards land and is taken by truck along sandy track towards shed on the Kumbe River, which he crosses by motor launch. Foreman of contractor firm greets him on the jetty. 01.56 Building materials, stored on the bank for prefab housing in favour of employees of the pilot project of 40 hectare and piles of narrow-gauge rails. Government official and foreman going to the small train of narrow-gauge loc and tip lorries, which are being loaded with sand by dragline to be unloaded further down the track. Papuan workmen putting sand between sleepers and rails, unloading lorries with rail segments, carrying segments to their spot. Track cleared through jungle, where dragline removes wood- and ground remnants. Survey of the flat area for the pilot project overgrown with tall grasses. 03.55 Members of the Hollandia Motor Club assemble at the starting point for motor rally, riding across stone- and asphalt roads, through a shallow river and along unpaved mountain road to check-point. 04.32 Governor Van Baal, arrived per Catalina seaplane on the Biak airfield, is being welcomed by local Navy Commander, after which detachment of honour of sailors march off in so-called land-white. Formed up petty officers and sailors at the inauguration of the new squadron of Firefly's, the command of which is assumed by lieutenant I. Greve. 05.03 The diver on a floating pontoon in the Sentani Lake checks his equipment, gets into a cylindrical cage with iron bars as a protection against crocs, is being lowered by a crane into the 60 feet deep water and is hoisted up again, all this being viewed by interested persons amongst whom Papuans in their canoes. 05.56 Trawler 'De Goede Hoop' of the Sea Fishery Service leaves port, nets are being thrown overboard. Running at full speed the trawler net is being dragged alongside, is being drawn up when the vessel idles, after which the contents of the net is being shed onto the deck. The useless fish is thrown back into the sea. The remaining fish will be graded, gutted and put into the cold storage room in the lower deck. Shark squirming on fishing-line (instead of the expected tunnyfish) being killed by a gunshot, drawn onto the quarterdeck, and split. Trawler at sea. 07.29 Felling of ironwood forest giants on the island of Batanta. The trunk is being shortened with heavy power chain-saw, operated by two men. By means of a caterpillar dozer the trunk is being hauled to the coast, where Papuans with identical saw cut the merbau trunk into pieces of about 4 meters' length. In the end the stumps are winched on board a pontoon for transport to Sorong. 09.15 M.S. 'Sibajak' of the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd moored in Hollandia-Haven. Officers and ratings of the Royal Netherlands Army embarking with their kit-bags, bags and trunks, waved good-bye by those who are staying behind on the quay. Ship tied with curtain of paper streamers to the shore, where those who are staying behind are waving good-bye to those crowded together on the decks. Ship leaves bay. Text: produced by J. Arthur Rank Film Corporation Ltd. Logon of the RVD (Netherlands Government Information Service) and text: 'The End'. 10.27 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 43.58 Image: Air pictures of the coast, where the jungle reaches the waterline, taken from the 'blister' of a Catalina. 44.58 Landing of a KLM Super Constellation on the Biak airfield, propellers coming to a standstill. Cabin crew descending the aircraft stairs. The new station building with control tower, KLM bus takes passengers to the KLM hotel 't Rif. Passengers in the lounge. Collective meal in the dining hall. The bar. Passenger in swimming trunks ascends stairs to the beach and together with other gentlemen gets into outriggers ready to sail. 45.45 Uprooted trees on the beach near a coastal village. Bulldozer removes vegetation of the grounds for the construction of a shipyard. Bulldozer pushes topsoil on heaps, which are loaded by dragline onto dump trucks. Dumping of the soil alongside the sea. 46.51 Concrete airstrip built by the Japanese during WW II. One of many water filled bomb craters as a result of allied bombing. A live 500 lbs bomb, a Japanese Betty bomber, destroyed on the ground and overgrown by the jungle. Repairs on that airfield. 47.06 Expedition readies itself to leave a village. Long row of bearers leaving the village, headed by the leader and three Papua policemen with rifles. Laborious crossing of a river via tree trunks fallen into the swift streaming waters. Bearers and escorts climb after each other the steep bank, following the path through the jungle. Rest-break with rice eating leader and bearers. The clouded Kebar Plain, the expedition is looking upon. 49.07 The expedition's leader hoists the Dutch flag to a rugged flag-pole on the grassy plain. Manpower from the villages in the neighbourhood cutting the alang-alang grass, while junior supervisor addresses the heads of the villages. Striped piglet flees away through the grass. The junior supervisor sets fire to the cut grass, smothering files of grass. 50.04 Pre-arranged textile identification marks are being put down at the beginning of the dropping zone. DC-3 of the KLM makes a low pass across the grounds, drops bundles and pulls up again. Spades, blades and shafts for hoes, as well as rakes are being distributed to the waiting Papuans. DC-3 flying over. Framework of the station building under construction, where the Papuans are tying the bamboo rafters to the buttresses with rattan. 51.16 Papuans carry a wild boar killed hunting and tied to a pole inside the fence, and are talking about the hunting prize. Local vegetables and fruit in a warong (= stall). Dancers are coming inside the fence walking in a long row behind each other and are performing a rhythmical round dance. Close-up of the singing and dancing Papuans with decorations on their bowed heads. 52.14 The Dutch flag on the flag-pole on the grass plain surrounded by the offshoots of the mountains. Observer observes the shaggy wooded mountain ridges through field glasses from a blister, in which a machine-gun is mounted. PBY Catalina seaplane of the Naval Aviation Service alights on a lake. Canoes of dugout tree trunks, manned with Papuans approach the machine. 53.18 Double-body canoe with loading-platform on which departing passengers, is being paddled alongside. Papuans in their canoes are looking at the unloading of the freight, which is being paddled ashore on a raft. Take-off of the Catalina and air pictures of the coastal line. 53.42 The cockpit where the second pilot takes over the control of the cocks of the starboard engine from the pilot Air pictures of the mountainous coastal line; crew members throw out a bundle on a chute from the blister. The dropping filmed from the ground, where the thrown out bale with chute is recovered by a patrol of marines. 54.16 The pilot turns the trim-wheel. Air pictures of places on the coast. Text: Produced by J. Arthur Rank Film Company Ltd. Vignette of the RVD (Netherlands Government Information Service) with text 'The End'. 54.52 End

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 33.38 Image: Air-view of Muturi, the oil loading port on the Vogelkop, of Tembuni and of a small residential area near Wasian. Oil drilling-derrick, where the drilling rods are being lowered to be removed using tongs. Governor Van Baal and retinue arrive on the site, where he opens a register of the new pipeline. The pumping station with a battery of registers on the outside and a diesel generator set inside the building. 35.04 The company in a covered personnel trolley, riding to the two storage tanks on the Muturi hill, alongside the pipeline on the yoke bridge on concrete posts. The guests and the hosts climbing the high flight of stairs constructed against the tank wall. Air-view of Muturi. 35.37 Levelling outside of Hollandia, where with a pneumatic drill holes are being made in the ground, in which little sticks of dynamite will be put. Explosions on the digging site, after which a bulldozer heaps up the coral-grit, a dragline loads it onto tip- carts. 36.16 A brick press being filled with a mixture of cement and coral grit (ratio 1:12) mixed in a concrete mixer. Levelling then to be pressed hydraulically, after which the bricks are taken out of the machine. Using the large-sized bricks in house building. Unloading a load of bricks. Papuan carpenters cutting rafters and battens to size. 37.05 Dutch carpenter hangs an outer door. Painting of Venetian blinds. General view of building site with stately bungalows in their finishing state. Digging of a drainage groove. Couple sitting outside with view of the bay. The interior of the living room. Scenic view of the Humboldt Bay. 37.45 Labour inspector visits the lodgings of the local labourers to examine the living conditions. European woman gets out of the bus at the bus-stop, gets into a shop where she selects a bunch of asparagus and pays for it. A block of sheds under construction on the bank of the bay. 38.27 Dutch trumpeter in white busby leads a procession of dressed up children to the festive ground. A little dance of the children. Papuans arriving per prau do their own dances. Competition of Papuan race-praus in the bay, in between them a row-boat with Dutch boys chooses its way. 39.12 The bay with sailing boats transferred from The Netherlands. The terrace and the yacht-club's dancing-floor full of dancing-couples. Guitar playing official of the waterworks in his living-room, where there are a number of stuffed animals on the wall. A living bird sits on his guitar, another one is drinking from a little cup. He shows the collection of stuffed animals in his home. The official shows a living flying squirrel, with skin membranes on both sides of its little body between fore and hind legs. His wife shows a couscous with young. 40.34 Australian destroyer HMAS Anzac puts into port, guests on deck, after which a gang of the Royal Netherlands Navy belays the run out hawser on a bollard. The ship moored on the wooden pier. Dutch naval officers and an official going aboard via the gangplank, they greet the flag and are welcomed by the Commander, who introduces some of his officers. Plaque to the memory of those fallen in New Guinea during the Second World War. 41.21 Solemn commemoration on the war cemetery on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the landings of the allied forces near Hollandia. Men of the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Royal Netherlands Army waiting with wreaths. Governor Van Baal with adjutant and naval officers. Close-ups of sailors, women with children looking on. The Navy chaplain bows his head in prayer. Three graves. Running up the flag while buglers of the Royal Army are blowing the last post. 41.52 Big public interest along the road, the Governor reviews the lined up Australian crew. Three bearers of the Militaire Willemsorde (comp. to Victoria Cross) The Royal Army's drum band opens the parade for Governor Van Baal. The detachment of HMAS Anzac followed by a section of the General Police, consisting of Papuans, and the detachment of the Royal Netherlands Army, the Commander of the Australian destroyer and the adjutant of the Governor. Indonesian women. 42.26 The car with the high guests leaves. The Governor unveils an obelisk on the spot where on the 22nd of April 1944 allied forces landed. The copper plate in Dutch and English at the foot of the obelisk. Remnants of the landing-crafts used at the time. 42.48 Governor Van Baal, his wife and retinue arrive at the premises of the new power station. While the public is looking on, the Governor puts the diesel engines into operation. Tumblers going up and down. The opening of a register. The bar, Mrs Van Baal and a lady. The building of the power station. High tension pylon with board. 43.38 Text: Produced by J. Arthur Rank Film Company Inc. Vignette of the RVD (Netherlands Government Information Service) and text 'The End'. 43.45 End.