Malay Peninsula

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Coronet

Complete Record: Introduction to “primitive” peoples of Malay, to the influence of western culture & methods of manufacture. Singapore—British architecture, vegetable markets, Hindu temples, churches, Christian, Muslims, houses on sticks, hand tools, native crafts, pottery making, block printing demonstration fabric shawls, clay dredging buckets, sluice boxes, natives pan for tin ore, bagged tin ore, coconuts floating down stream, splitting coconuts, rubber trees, sap drips into buckets, latex processed into crude rubber, water buffalo plough rice fields, planting rice shoots in mud, rice plants, harvesting rice w/ hand knife, threshing rice with hands & feet, sifting rice w/ straw basket, women tea-leaf picking, Malay girls wrap & pack & seal tea, schools for 7-14 year old Malays, kids running, slide down ladder into pool, intermediate grade Malay girls in school, girls in uniforms playing basketball, riding bikes, travel by boat, Singapore trade center, city, trading, Malay teacher at blackboard (outside class) East meets west.