Traditional farming with water buffaloes. Ploughing.

Paddy fields with planting and harvesting crops by workforce of local people

Women working in the fields.

Country Fair with flower show. Local people in their ornate and traditional local costume . Local folk dancing. The crowing of the 'Queen of the Fair' Presentation of Prize Cups to the winners of the competiitions. More displays of traditional folk dancing in front of standing audiences at the fair.

Production / Donor Details: These films were taken by Edmund Kennedy Wicksteed, 1916-1992. In the 1930s he worked as a customs officr in Malaya, was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various districts in Borneo. He returned to England in 1966 when Borneo became independent. He was awarded the CBE for colonial service.