MALAYSIAN IRON MINE VISIT - PERSONAL FILM - 1955
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 474536).
Synopsis
AMATEUR FILM
Reel 1: Aerial view of Malaysia from plane; Kuala Lumpar; Kuala Lumpar airport; taking off in a Beever Aircraft and interiors during flight; aerial view; KUANTAN AIRPORT: landing and airport buildings; aerial views of coast; DUNGAN AIRSTRIP: single track railway to mine; train interiors and views of landscape; stations at Bendai and Serdang; the river Dungun in flood: EMMCO - EASTERN MINING AND METALS CO: office exterior and interior with secretaries and admin staff; workers receiving wages and in laboratory; shops interiors; sawmill exterior and operations; workers in open truck.
Reel 2: Children playing outside EMMCO Cinema; Malaysians outside houses, feeding chicks, in fields, gathering together, scything grass, playing football. Englishmen on veranda having tea; reading the magazine `London Calling' and playing tennis.
Reel 3: Man laying gelignite in ground with string; explosion on hillside; examining the results; bulldozing earth; train transporting ore(?); exteriors of mine in operation.
Reel 4: School exterior; interior English and Malaysian primary school children at desks, drawing, playing with plasticine. Teaching maths in secondary school. Workers boarding a train; landscape seen from train; SURA - NEAR DUNGUN: EMMCO rest house at Sura; mine; iron ore stockpile; conveyor belts transporting iron ore; loading jetty; unloading lorries. KUALA DUNGUN: beach after the flooding(?); family playing on beach; man boarding plane at Durgun airstrip; coast seen from the air and from boat.
Reel 5: Timetable of North Eastern Transport Service Ltd; bus interior and voews; stopping at Shell petrol station; bus takes raft ferry over river; fish market; Kota Bharu railway station; on boat; views from train; Temangan station; Krai station.
Titles
- MALAYSIAN IRON MINE VISIT COMPILATION - PERSONAL FILM - 1955 (Alternative)
- MALAYSIAN IRON MINE VISIT - PERSONAL FILM - 1955 (Archive)
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1955
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 8mm Film
- Colour:
- Colour and Black/White
- Sound:
- Silent