Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.31 Relief map of New Guinea on which the route of the Sibil Bivouac to the Juliana Bivouac 1800 m high is being plotted in. 00.44 The camp surrounded by high mountains, where the Dutch flag waves. A sign with inscription 'Juliana Bivouac' fixed onto a tent-pole. 00.51 Bell Augusta helicopter descends on marked landing site, the cargo brought along is unloaded, the machine ascends immediately sideways and flies away. 01.28 Papuans walking on a bough bridge across a rushing river. 01.34 Close-ups of Papuans staring curiously at the white people. 01.43 The lanky hair of two Dutchmen is being fingered by the Papuans. 01.58 Papua has a look at head skin of fellow-resident. Photographer lets Papua look through view-finder of camera with telephoto-lens. 02.03 Anthropologist measures shoulder breadth and chest width of Papuan woman. 02.15 Expedition member gives an illustrated review to one of the Papuans sitting about, which is being viewed proudly. 02.30 Bearers of the vanguard walking to and fro with their burden awaiting departure. Relief map of New Guinea on which the route to be followed from the Juliana Bivouac to the bivouac right under the top is being plotted. 02.45 The vanguard team takes leave from those that stay behind, they zigzag across the ground of the bivouac, climbing the fence. 03.00 The two expedition members in front get across the bough bridge, and cut their way laboriously with bush knives through the dense under wood. 03.40 Bearer wading through rushing river full of boulders, they follow the river across the stones. 04.02 The front runners disappear in the darkness of the jungle. 04.07 Expedition member appears from the jungle followed by bearers. 04.15 Front runners stop for a moment or two on a spot, where a grand view unfolds. Navigator looks through compass sight at snow covered peak of the Antares Mountains, then the group goes on. 04.29 Team nears through the high grass alongside the mountain lake the tent encampment of the advanced post, where they are welcomed by two expedition members. 04.40 Images of the big silent lake at an altitude of 3250 m, where a couple of coots is swimming about. 04.59 Expedition members in conversation, while the warmly clad bearers are grouping around a camp fire. 05.04 Haze covers the camp and a blanket of mist hangs over the lake. 05.10 Expedition member hangs tent and mattress to dry. Toilet making consisting of hair combing and washing the face is done in the lake. 05.19 Four bearers are eating rice with spoons from a plate or feeding tin. Feeding tin is cleaned in the lake where the coots are floating. 05.30 The four expedition members are studying the air pictures of the penultimate stretch. Snow covered mountain top, the expedition's final goal. 05.44 Sergeant of the marines and the other three members of the vanguard buckle on their rucksacks and leave the camp with the bearers. 06.03 The four of them go over the rocky slope. They step around, over and on boulders and arrive at threesome little tents put up in hollow of the alpine camp. The bearers follow soon, filmed by expedition member with 8 mm film camera with interchangeable objectives. 06.39 Marine prepares pan of pea-soup, water is poured out of a tin into a bowl, and then the four of them relish the food from the mess tins. 06.54 White snow-covered Juliana Peak in the distance. 06.57 The four of them put on their vivid-yellow parka's, wind- and water-tight, they pack their climbing irons and bundles of ropes into their rucksacks, buckle them on, put on their snow-goggles, take up their pick axes and leave the alpine bivouac. 07.19 They climb a steep mountain slope, slowly going upwards across a piece of rocky ground sloping upwards, they carefully seek their way against an almost vertical mountain wall. 08.08 They walk through spots of snow from the glacier, climb in single file across rock formations, and descend a bit into a shallow valley and across an open track. 08.40 They make a halt to rest, to take pictures, to orient themselves and to apply sun-burn lotion onto their faces. 08.52 Low hanging clouds and fog-banks coming on. 08.56 In the shelter of a narrow mountain crack one of them buckles on the pointed climbing irons under the shoes, then a last check-up. 09.07 With a mountaineer pickaxe steps are cut in the hard snow sheet by the most experienced member of the group, in which they all put their feet, roped together. Mountaineer shoes make footsteps in the snow. 09.25 The four of them in single file slowly going and using the pickaxe as a staff. 09.43 Shoes with climbing irons. A climber wrapped in parka. 09.49 The four of them have reached the summit. They take their cameras, and bind the Dutch flag to a pole, planted into the snow, waving in the strong wind. 10.10 The flag is photographed with a Rolleiflex camera. 10.30 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): SHOTS: 00.34 Signboard with caption 'Rancho-Arocario Kebar' over the entrance to the base-camp of the Forestry Service, from which a group of man in single file are leaving on foot through the high grass, amongst which there are earth orchids in bloom, they cross a river on a tree trunk, then travel through the jungle and across the impressive Kebar Plain beyond en route to the surrounding hills. The group is led by two foresters (both Dutchmen). They are followed by two Papuan forest assistants and twenty Papuan bearers. 01.29 Bearers cutting off hanging branches on the brink of the forest, they clean the ground, they build a provisional lodging from canvas for the leaders and a shelter with atap (palm leaves) for themselves, while the forester unpacks boxes and the cook cooks a meal. 02.01 Forester Ir. Koos Sieck, drinking coffee from a mug, and giving directions when bearers unpack luggage. 02.06 Bearers armed with bush knives, axes and saws leaving the bivouac, while Sieck puts on his shoes, following them shortly with the other forester. 02.19 Having arrived at a group of araucaria trees one of the foresters inspects a tree with field glasses from a hill with panorama of the valley and the surrounding mountains, after which the expedition goes on across a river and through the jungle. Close-up of forester studying an orchid. 02.50 Bearers cutting away the underbrush around a tree, while one of the foresters determines thickness and height (60 meters), after which cutters fell the tree which falls down with din. 03.17 The forester walks on the trunk uncoiling his measuring-tape, and shouts his finding (75 meter) to his colleague, who then cleans two seed-cones. 03.32 In the base camp the seeds are removed from the cones, while the covered seed-beds are being broken up with a hoe, the ground is mixed with humus, and then the seeds are sown. 03.47 Hundreds of little plants planted out in bamboo cylinders are being watered. Close-up of a plant of 30 cm (after a year), which develops to man-size after three years, inspected by forester. Look at the buildings on the base-camp. 04.01 Tin cylinders with agathis plants are being watered, selected and planted, and then sticks are planted around them. Measuring the height of a growing up tree with a stick. 04.37 Group of tappers goes into the forest from the bivouac, wades through a little brook and gets to an agathis tree, from which hangs copal in the meantime curdled already. With bush knives it is chipped off, caught into funnels, which are emptied into back pouches. 05.44 Down tilt along high agathis tree, at the foot of which the groups leader with a gauge marks the cut on the bark, after which the tapper loosens the bark carefully on to the cambium. 06.19 Back packs are put on again and the group of tappers goes back. 06.33 Women and children streaming to the sorting place in the neighbourhood of Sorong, where they spread jute sacks, emptying the pouches on them, cleaning the copal thoroughly, putting the resin back into the pouches, which are weighed. Then follows payment to the tappers. Close-up's of mother nursing her child, young woman at work, filling clean copal in a bag to be weighed. 07.58 Copal being put into sacks, continually being rammed down, the sacks are sown up, across the strand loaded into a small boat, the outboard motor is started and the vessel sails away. 08.47 Wagon loaded with sacks of copal rides alongside KPM ship Kaloekoe, moored on the quay in Sorong, where the sacks are hoisted on board in a net. Kaloekoe and other ships on the quays. 09.36 End.