Description (source: Beeldengeluid.nl): 00.20 Image: Marina in Hollandia Harbour, where young sailors are preparing mast and boom on sailing boats at anchor, they hoist the sails, or are just loafing with their feet in the water. 00.10 Signal flags bearing the letters Y and P are being hoisted on the mast. Boy paddles his sailing boat backwards into open water. The public is watching the start. 00.30 Girl tightens foresail and main sail from the bottom of the boat. A couple of girls round a buoy. Instructions from the shore with a big megaphone. A small boat sailing before the wind. A boat belonging to the free class rounds a buoy. 01.03 National flag flanked by both letter flags. Competitors testing their home-made match speedboats. Participator kneels down into the narrow cockpit. The engines are adjusted and started. 01.34 Four boats tearing along a pegged out course on Sentani Lake. The tournament leader follows the boats with a pair of binoculars, registering the time with stopwatches. 02.09 Boat passes the finish, while black-and-white chequered finish flag goes down and the boat runs easy with a sharp turn. 02.22 Young spectators in deck-chairs. 02.28 Water skier starts backside first, makes a couple of turns and kicks away his left ski. 02.55 Seen on the tanned back: a water skier starting a slalom. 03.02 A couple of girls are relishing fruits. Boy and girl starting, who then do some acrobatics on ski's, watched by the public from the shore. The two fans outwards and back to the stern-wave, getting back to the landing stage, where they go underwater. 04.02 Play ground of school complex where children are playing with a ball, drinking lemonade, are playing quoits and are doing sack-races, under great interest of friends and parents. 05.00 Papuan boy climbs a high mast, from where he takes a rolled payoong (umbrella), throws it downwards. After getting down he is greeted by his supporters. 05.23 Civil servant in uniform fires a starting shot with a pistol for a relay race between Hollandia-Stad (Town) and Hollandia-Haven (Harbour), after which the runners set off. Checkpoint along hilly road where a runner has dropped down. 05.53 Finish where Papuan participant arrives first under great enthusiasm. 06.01 Photographer on the side in the middle of numerous people, watching dances by a group of Kapauku from the Wissel Lakes (Paniai Lakes). 06.23 Papuan dancers, white painted and provided with oblong drums, performing a rhythmical dance. 06.46 Two outriggers with white painted Papuan dancers mooring at the grassy bank, where lots of spectators are waiting. Dancers, amongst whom a bow-and-arrow marksman performing a prolonged group dance, accompanying themselves with drums. 07.41 Dancers armed with lances and adorned with long plumes. 07.50 Papuan girls with reed aprons and white bras performing a dance. 08.11 Another group exclusively of men performing and accompanying themselves with drums. 08.33 Ring-dance of Papuan dancers. 08.40 Bare-footed dance legs and the neighbour's legs in red and black football stockings and brown shoes. 08.43 White painted dancers in red skirts. 08.55 Dancing in two rows the dancers move forward behind the Dutch flag. 09.09 Then again in single file along the public. 09.13 Group stops and bows in front of the public. 09.18 New Guinea map with white letters: Released by Rank Film Distributors (Holland) N.V. 09.24 Text: 'The End'. Device of the Netherlands Government Information Service. 09.30 End

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.22 Trainee Papuan civil servants, arrived per pick-up, enter village where the village head greets the leading Dutch civil servant, the group is divided into two, of which each gets a task of its own. The inhabitants, convoked by the village head, are looking on when the candidate police-officer interrogates a person, while a colleague in the second group collects taxes in cash, and immediately after he renders simple medical attendance. 01.38 Students of the training college established in Hollandia (Jayapura) arriving with bearers per service prau in lake village, crossing river-bed, taking a bath in a little lake and building a bivouac of their own with palm leaves. Student drinks coconut milk. 02.38 Agricultural experimental station Kota-Nica, situated in valley near Hollandia, where young Papuans are being trained to be agricultural advisers and where they under supervision of Papuan and Dutch instructors till the ground, are sowing seeds by hand and mechanically, in the nursery-garden they prune and spray, and they service farm machinery, amongst others mini-tractors. 03.58 Board: 'Forestry Course Kota-Nica' of the same training centre, where sixteen boys with simple schooling are being trained in botany and soil science, and also in geodesy by means of a scale-model. Close-ups of round promotion shields with Dutch or Indonesian texts for the benefit of flora and fauna conservation projects. Students making shields. Measuring the diameter of a tree-trunk to be felled in the jungle. From nursery- greenhouse young plants are wheeled outside to be planted in flower-beds. Spraying a tree. Pruning a young tree. 05.36 In a two-years' crash course of the Directorate of Public Works, Papuan boys with only a couple of years' elementary education, are surveying a future proposed route with the help of a theodolite and sticks for the Land Registry and Mapping Service. They cut away the undergrowth. 06.12 No-smoking-sign in Dutch and Indonesian at the training for assistant weather observer. A weather balloon is held in readiness, wind speedometer and direction indicator are being observed. The balloon is released and followed with special glasses. On a weather-chart the observations about height and speed are being registered. Student fills in coded observations in English on blackboard. Instructor wires in Morse clear weather reports, noted down by the students in code groups, after which they themselves operate the Morse keys. 07.13 Future transmitter watchman receives instruction on transmitter station how to tune in a radio transceiver. The counter-clerk in the Post and Telegraph Office learns about registered postal articles, the sales of stamps and the stamping of air-mail. 08.07 Students in uniform follow a ten months' training at the junior sea training school to enter into the Netherlands New Guinea Navy. Inside there are theoretical class lessons, outside on the training vessel they learn how to work the signal flags, 'the ship with a little garden', where they also receive training in lowering loads into the hold as well as lowering a life-boat. Trainee climbs a climbing-rope barefooted in Papuan manner. Instruction about the manual manipulation of signal flags for international signal code, about how to operate a Morse-key, rope-splicing, the maintenance of marine engines and using the ship's compass. 09.39 Trainee plots the ship's course using the compass during a trip with the government's ship. A light beacon is fitted with a gas cylinder. The crew hauls the bottle up a steep reef and puts it into a steel housing. 11.03 End.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.22 Shots: Papuan casts off the ship's hawsers from the jetty, from where sympathizers wave a good-bye to the resident, the sectional commander of the General Police, doctor with a small staff and officials. Passage of the Humboldt Bay with two sailing yachts. Passengers and crew on deck having a chat during the trip. Changing into a sloop. Village head of Sarmi greets visitors. Company climbs hill. 01.27 Small Church of the mainly protestant population. Images of the accommodations, amongst which are a hospital and a dispensary. Doctor treats patients on the veranda. Papuan nurses attend to toddlers of the children's part in play-pens in the open. Papuan nurse lifts suckling from its little bed, hands it over to the mother sitting on bed, who suckles the baby. Lawn with drying laundry. Wrecks of Japanese light tanks. 02.54 Trip on jungle river, meeting a lonely prau. Uniformed head of village Pioniersbivak (Pioneer Bivouac) is waiting, chickens scratching about, model of 'Kolff' on top of an atap roof. Resident in shorts and shirt enters village, while doctor treats inhabitants. Visitors go down steep hill, head of the village gives a salute and company goes back in prau to the 'Kolff'. 04.58 Making headway through narrow passage, rich in fish, where water-birds are flying up. Prau alongside 'Kolff' at anchor. Doctor, leaning over the bulwark, inspects Papuans, who had been treated by him before. Toddler is lifted out of the prau on board by his father, doctor treats the child. Head of the village joins the trip and shows the company his humble village and inhabitants of the Bagusa tribe with 150 souls. From the forest emerge a man and a woman with child. Close-ups of the family, for which the visitors are showing interest. 07.03 Dutch flag in top, mascot on deck during trip on the Pacific Ocean, school of dolphins swimming ahead of the bow. Three saw-fishes carved of wood on the roof of a small building. Medical examination of mothers with children arrived per prau in the field laboratory in accordance with a UNICEF project. 08.35 Woman assistant performs blood tests with simple shake device and microscope. Phials for penicillin are handy, from which inhabitants and many children are getting a shot in the buttocks. Company leaves the lake-dwelling across staging and goes on in motor outrigger. 10.22 End