Description: (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) 23.38 On the map the towns of Hollandia (Jayapura), Merauke, Manokwari, the island of Biak, the little town of Tembuni on the Bird's Head and Serui on the island of Yapen are being plotted. Projection of the map of Europe on the map of New Guinea, with dotted lines between Amsterdam and Warsaw (the length of Netherlands New Guinea) and Amsterdam and Munich (the distance from north to south). Further the rivers Mamberamo, Wasian and Digul are drawn in. 24.45 Pile-dwelling on the coast, jungle rivers, and rocky coast. A Dutch warship at anchor in the Humboldt Bay. Earth moving with bulldozers. Papuan workmen assisting in house building and the laying on of a pipeline. Caterpillar transport of an engine. 25.15 Covered personal trolley runs on narrow-gauge railway through the jungle. Pipeline put onto a yoke bridge through the jungle and swamps. Drilling platform, pipeline and a couple of oil tanks. Small tanker on the loading jetty in the river. House building on the drilling grounds, where Papuans and Dutchmen work side by side on the assembly. Settlement of delivered lodgings in the jungle, a wooden road-sign. 26.17 Papuans on a broad sandbank of river through the jungle. The high, heavily wooded bank. Captain and helmsman on the bridge of river steamer. Canoe with four Papuans. Motor launch pushes off from the ship, exploration team cuts its way through the jungle. Inspecting the top of a tree with binoculars. Papuans chop tree with axe strokes, after which the structure of the trunk is being studied with a magnifying glass. Team goes back to the river where the vessel 'Cycloop' lies at anchor. 27.24 Surveyor at work. Modern road-plane smoothes verge slope. Road above the bay in Hollandia and road in Merauke 700 km to the south. Camp of Quonset huts in Hollandia and residences under construction. Commodious bungalows in Dock 5 in Hollandia Harbour, a new hotel and the interior of a bungalow. 20.09 Punch and Judy show for a great number of toddlers. Little girl licking an ice cream, and Papuan boys eating a coconut. Grazing cattle, field with rice, Hand threshing of sheaves of rice. Working fields with hoe. Motorized small plough and cultivator drawn by mini caterpillar tractor. 28.55 A number of cultivated food-plants such as: corn, cabbage, cassava, and fruits like bananas and pineapple. Planting of beans, field with tobacco plants, corn for feeding chickens, fruit trees. Saw-mill, where old car engine drives the circular saw. 29.34 DC-3 of KLM being guided to platform, where passengers alight. Traffic controller in the tower, an Australian DC-3 starting. Australian flag and registration on the tail and the name Qantas on the fuselage. Passengers alighting and are being welcomed. 30.00 Greeting of the governments doctors arrived with the mission plane Simavi-IV by the village head of Dojolama on the Sentani Lake. Papuan children waiting to be examined. The doctors, assisted by Papuan helpers, examine the children, while their mothers are waiting outside. 30.34 Primary school Dojo, where the doctor addresses the children, previous to continuation of the teaching. Mission school in Merauke, where girls are playing at handball. Papua with dressed foot paddles away from Dojolama, where the inhabitants are looking after the mission vessel sailing away. The banks of the Sentani Lake seen from the ship. 31.11 Map of New Guinea, whereupon the Wisselmeren (Wissel Lakes) are being plotted. Ekari village near the lake. The inhabitants are being examined policlinically by a mission sister. Tribe members on their way to the village, bearers with a pig killed while hunting. Village head standing on the ridge of his home, addresses the villagers. Cutting firewood. Groups of waiting men and women, wearing the typical nets around their heads. 32.06 Pig is carried onto the fire, is being scraped clean with wooden knives, and finally cut up. Villagers near a stall of the local civil servant, where cakes of Lux toilet soap and packets of matches can be bought with money. (This is unusual: the local currency was shells.) 32.34 The villagers making a massive round dance. The painted initiator, who encourages and directs. Dancers demonstrating the so-called passion dance. 32.59 Vignette of the Netherlands Government Information Service with text: 'End'. 33.07 END.