Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of rice are unloaded from a lorry and put aboard a small boat. Close-ups of two Malay men. RAF crew standing on the boat full of rice. More rice is unloaded from the lorry with close-ups of Malays. View from a boat heading towards a moored Short Sunderland flying boat, serial PP147 'V'. Alongside the Sunderland sacks of rice are loaded aboard through a depth charge hatch. Spilt rice is gathered up. Looking through a porthole onboard the Sunderland as the aircraft accelerates. Air-to-ground footage of coastal terrain of the Endau region of Malaya. Views of the town and shipyard at Kuantan. Wide shot shows the moored Sunderland and a local boat approaching. Two Malays leaning from a hatch on the Sunderland. Local boat being paddled along the river. The local boat ties up alongside the Sunderland. Local boat on the Sunderland's starboard side. View from a boat approaching the jetty. Rice is carried up the steps.

Union flag flying at Kuantan outside the house of Lieutenant-Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman. Close-ups of Chapman (in his Seaforth Highlanders uniform) and Flight Lieutenant Comrie, pilot of the Sunderland seen earlier. Colonel Chapman with a Captain Chapman. Captain Chapman wears a beret with two cap badges, one of them possibly the badge of the Special Operations Executive's Force 136, the other somewhat ambiguous.

Captain Chapman seen with two women, named on the dopesheet as Miss Baker and Diana Gibson.

Crowd of people on a jetty. A local boatman paddling the cameraman's boat and smoking a cigarette. A riverside warehouse. View approaching the Sunderland. Close-up of a Malay boatman. Air-to-ground footage from the cameraman's return journey to Seletar.

An Army cameraman, Sergeant Girling, takes a trip in a Sunderland flying boat delivering rice from Seletar in Singapore, to Kuantan, Malaya, where he meets a British guerilla leader and a British woman who have both been living secretly in the jungle during the Japanese occupation, before flying back to Seletar.

Notes

In all an interesting piece with a strong internal narrative.

The dopesheet provides interesting and detailed preambles for each of the three sections described in the short summary.

Flight Lieutenant Comrie was a New Zealander in the RAF and the day before this film was shot flew his Sunderland to Kuantan and landed without the benefit of an existing map of the river, which is described as having been choked with wrecked Japanese rivercraft as a result of Allied aerial interdiction. Some 40,000lbs of rice were delivered in two days.

Freddie Spencer Chapman was a prewar explorer and mountaineer and after the fall of Malaya remained behind to organise resistance and guerilla warfare, and was successful enough to invite comparison to T E Lawrence, not least by Field Marshal and Viceroy of India Archibald Wavell. He later authored a highly successful book based on his experiences entitled 'The Jungle is Neutral', published in 1948.

Miss Baker had been living in the jungle since the Japanese invasion in 1942 and subsequently joined Colonel Chapman's guerillas. Diana Gibson was the first female journalist to arrive in Kuantan after its liberation.