Jan Gerritsen talks to: unknown civil servant (silent) - naval officer (silent) - Dutch couple (silent) - Dutch family (silent) - Indonesian man (silent) - two representatives of Nationaal Thuisfront Nederland (Van Zijl, Van Rijn) - rear admiral Reeser, who is happy with the action Beeld van Papoea's with protest signs against Sukarno; saluting Papuans in front of flag; national anthem Wilhelmus being played on bamboo flutes. Text on sign: HAK PAPOEA BARAT HAROES DIPERTA HANKAN and TETAP MENOLAK PLAN BUNKER. - interview with young Papuan and Dutchman (silent) warship - interview about Indonesian droppings - arrival Dutch official (Bot). Banner with text: 'We demand of the Dutch government to present the South Moluccan issue to the UN'. Bot faced with protests - funeral of Dutch soldier Derks - fullscreen taperecorder with sound: "Large Cynism in Hollandia about ever increasing Indonesian agression". - Papuan speech - interview with Reeser - meeting Nieuw-Guinea Raad - image from plane flying to Wissel Lakes. Recordings of highland commissioner Raphael de Haan, who will inform the Kapoukoes about the contents of the agreement just signed by Indonesia and the Netherlands, in which the transfer of sovereignty has been arranged. The message by Raphael de Haan is that the white men will leave. De Haan addresses the Kapaukoes from a platform with the aid of interpreters. Reactions from the public with singing and shouting and a speech from a Kapaukoe leader. - images of Papuan police during marching and raising of the Papuan flag.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) 00.08 SHOTS: Boeing 707 from Pan American World Airways on apron of Biak Airport. KLM Stationmaster, Ab Jansen, introduces two gentlemen to each other. Mr Rockefeller and his daughter Mary leave the airplane in company of the Resident of the Geelvink Bay District and are escorted to the station building. There Costring (Commander of the Netherlands Forces in New Guinea) Rear-Admiral Reeser briefs them outside on the verandah and inside in the restaurant about the situation. 01.25 Rockefeller walks with escort across the apron, takes leave of Mr Kouwenhoven, shakes hands with the pilots, takes leave of Mr Reeser. Father and daughter board a KLM DC3. Costring, Resident and a Commander of the Naval Aviation Service watching the leaving airplane. 02.10 On board a patrol vessel with native art objects cameramen film René Wassing who arrived by Beaver. (He accompanied Michael Rockefeller on his last tour.) He is continuously filmed and photographed while walking across a pier. A warm greeting by Governor Plateel. 03.29 Consult Rockefeller and Platteel preceding a press conference. Camera people, sound men and photographers are shooting continuously. Pressmen are taking notes when Rockefeller and afterwards Platteel are answering questions. Rockefeller leaves the building, speaks with people of the search party, while pack of journalists are shooting pictures and films. Governor leaves building. 05.52 Post-office erected in 1920. Dutchman speaking with postal worker. Catalina flying-boat of the Royal Navy on the river. 06.08 Platteel and officials are studying the search-area on a topographic map. Douglas C-46 Dakota and C-130 Hercules of the Australian Air Force on tarmac of airport, where two helicopters are being readied for a flight. 06.50 Building where the press conference will be held (see 03.29) The whole body of press men are waiting inside. Australian Pilot speaking with Dutchmen. 07.17 Landing-stage with drums of fuel waiting; lots of sympathizers looking on when Catalina flying-boat touches down on the water. Motor-launch moors on the pier, Mr Platteel and Nelson and Mary Rockefeller are getting ashore, taking a seat in a small four doors Fiat, which leaves, leaving behind the sympathizers. 08.25 The Rockefellers say goodbye to René Wassing in the departure lounge, and leave the building together with Mr Platteel. 08.51 Company leaves DC-3, make acquaintance with Mrs. Platteel and goes to the station-building. 09.21 The two Bell helicopters from the Australian Army are landing. Pilot gets in and helicopter flies away. Helicopter lands near Papua settlement, watched by the locals. Lieutenant of the Australian army helps Papua policeman with his life-jacket, after which he enters the helicopter. Pilot buckles up, helicopter takes off and starts searching. 11.17 Shots of Papua's on jetty, where the Beaver is moored. 11.30 Air-view of river, swamps and coast-line. 12.20 END

Path alongside a mountain slope. One of the researchers examining patients in a village. Papuans with goitre are being separated and palpated by a physician. Man makes a girl climbing a stone, puts a sign with a number around her neck and takes a picture. Woman with goitre carrying a baby on her shoulder. The baby is paralysed. Man opens his mouth. Papua children, walking poorly. Boys are made to build towers with rings to test their intelligence. Doctor with potion shows patient with goitre how to drink the medicine. Woman being irradiated [?]. Blood being taken from woman. Tilling soil by dozens of Papuans. Plane in the air. The Dutchmen leaving the village and going to the aircraft. Plane taking off.

Arrival of the Censorship Committee, reception with cigars and cocktails. Sessions starting. N. Jouwe amongst others is being interrogated. The New Guinea Courier: 'Censorship Committee arrives in Hollandia!' Nameplate of the barristers De Rijke & Adriaansens. Somebody takes a file 'Censorship' from chest of drawers. Man tinkers at Volkswagen beetle and leaves. (Note: Sound-tapes of hearings can be found in the National Archives, The Hague.)

24.26 Text: RAD-229 Rijksarchiefdienst 25.02 Image: Cutter moored to wooden pier. Plate with inscription Afdeling Zeevisserij Station (Department of Sea Fisheries Station) - Hollandia. The ship off the shore, the ship’s name De Goede Hoop on the bow of the ship 25.20 The ship sets out and sails the bay 25.33 Dutch and Papua crewmen prepare a chicken 25.46 Fishnet filled with fish opened on the deck, but not all fish fall out because a large tuna-like fish remains stuck in the net. Crewman attacks fishes with ax, fish stretched out on deck. Large white fish is hoisted up with joined forces and put overboard 26.32 Crewmember lifts the saw of a sawfish onto a board and hackes it off with an ax and then the fish is hoisted up, slips from the noose, is hoisted up once more and with great effort is put overboard 27.12 Skipper and assistant repair a net, detail of the mending. Assistant and Papuan help repair a net that is immediately cast overboard followed by the floats and the white board with the main float 27.56 Paying out winch cable. Attaching shackle and bolt to the big board that is hoisted overboard backwards, also a board on the starboard bow. Engine tracker controls winch. Foaming water caused by screw, the portside board which is briefly being dragged underwater 28.23 Caught fish on deck. Caught lobsters. Crew sort the catch, crewman cuts some open and throws the fish entrails overboard after which the fish are rinsed with water hose 29.01 cable clamp knocked loose with hammer. Skipper operates the winch. The net comes up and is unloaded hanging over the deck so that the fish fall out, then the oversized fish is thrown back into the sea and the net is cast overboard once more 29.43 a stingray, fish is sorted by the crew and thrown into baskets. Insulating hatch of cooling hold is removed and the baskets are loaded into the hold 30.11 The packed net is emptied on the deck again, after which the fish is rinsed. A large ray is attached to the hoist and hoisted. Close-up of eye and mouth of the ray which is dumped over the bulwark. Sorting out the catch 30.49 Papua and crewman make a hook. Detailed picture of the double hook above which downy feathers are attached. Cargo boom payed out sideways 31.25 Crewmember throws hook overboard and pays out the line under the cargo boom. The bridge with the helmsman and skipper setting engine telegraph and adjusting the sonar 31.50 Hauling in a line on the stern, with a fish lifted on the deck after which the Papuan removes the hook from its mouth. Hauling in lines with caught fish, which are then thrown on deck to have hooks removed 32.40 Crewman fixes the hook and throws the line overboard backwards. Big caught fish on the deck. Papua prepares a hook with live bait and down feathers, hauls in the line and lifts the fish on the deck, where the animal violently thrashes before and during the removal of the hook so that the mouth must be cut open 33.39 Skipper rings bell, a fish hauled in 33.59 Crew pose one by one with big fish caught with lines. Crew hauls in line on which a shark in the water turns and winds, crewman shoots the shark with a rifle, shark is then hoisted on deck where attempts are made to remove the hook 35.05 Ship's cook prepares the food in the galley, crewmen at the table. Close up of the captain eating chicken. Hauling in lines on the stern 35.35 The bridge with the helmsman and skipper setting the sonar equipment. The graph on which the schools of fish are visible, skipper looks in the viewfinder of the detection device. The vague image in the viewfinder, close-up of the helmsman. Papuan gives a tug on the line and then lifts a large fish on deck with his hook 36.36 The trawler sets sail for the bay, filmed from different setups. Papuans on the bow 37.20 End (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl)