En 1994, sous l'égide de la Société des explorateurs français, Patrice Franceschi et son équipe se rendent dans l'une des zones les plus inaccessibles et les plus hostiles de l'Irian-Jaya, la partie indonésienne de l'île de Nouvelle-Guinée. L'expédition se compose de géographes, d'ethnologues, de spécialistes de la jungle, de photographes, de cinéastes et d'un médecin. Apr?s des mois d'efforts a travers jungle et montagnes, l'expédition découvre une tribu papoue inconnue, etranchée depuis des si?cles au coeur d'une vallée perdue. Au m?me moment, des compagnies internationales s'intéressent elles aussi ? ces régions qu'elles supposent riches en bois, or et cuivre...

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) 00.01 Amphitheatre auditorium of the United Nations in New York, seats of the representatives of the nations as well as those of the presidium. Secretary General U-Thant takes his seat, with Ellsworth and Bunker on his right-hand side. 00.42 The Indonesian delegation under minister Subandrio, and the Dutch delegation under the ambassadors J.H. van Roijen and C. Schuurman enter and take their seats. 01.10 Images of the chairman's table with U-Thant and his staff. 01.17 U-Thant starts his speech in English. In the meantime images of those present and the staff. 03.33 Next minister Subandrio gives his speech. 05.47 After which Van Roijen takes the floor. 08.12 U-Thant askes the delegations to sign now, after which Subandrio, Van Roijen and Schuurman sign the act of transference. 09.08 Finally U-Thant himself also signs. 09.40 Pressphotogaphers take pictures.10.34 U-Thant declares this ' very auspicious ceremony ' to be closed. Those present, amongst whom are U-Thant, Schuurman and Subandrio shake hands. 11.20 A group picture is taken of U-Thant, Bunker, Van Roijen and Subandrio. 12.02 The company go to the exit. Bunker and an Indonesian lady have their picture taken once more. 12.28 THE END.

00.24 Caption: The development of Dutch New Guinea. Camera: A.A. Denninghoff- Stelling. Montage and Commentary: Johan van Canstein. Voice-over: Joop Reinboud. 00.39 Picture: Map of Dutch New Guinea with indication through animation of mountain ranges across, with 'white spots' - being unknown areas - the surrounding ocean and seas, the main towns and the biggest rivers. 03.05 Air-view of mountain ranges covered with jungle, in some places piercing through thick clouds as well as rivers winding through valleys. 03.50 A fleet of praus made from coarse tree-trunks. Members of the Asmat tribe in the south of the country will row these at high speed, standing. Joyful dance by men in loin-cloth, in which the dancers always remain in the same place, just moving their knees to and fro. 04.25 Close-up of a woman with head-net. A couple of male Ekari's. Pigs feast. three killed pigs, a fourth one is being put over a log-fire. 3 native women posing. Grilling a pig on hot stones, accompanied by a ring-dance, performed by a thick throng of men with sticks and lances, others, however, posing for the camera or looking on. 05.32 Missionary is sitting near smouldering and flaring up fire. He is being greeted in a hostile way by means of a so-called passion dance. He goes down to the members of the tribe, changes a knuckle greeting with the leader and reaches an agreement. A little orchestra of young men with whitewashed faces, beating narrow oblong drums. Jump dancing by young girls with white speckled faces. 06.11 Missionary celebrates an open-air Mass on a simple altar, the whole of the population lining up behind him. Afterwards they kneel in front of him to receive the Holy Host. 06.36 Carrying-poles with coconuts are being brought to the site of festivities in procession. White speckled natives put those coconuts on an open space, continuously accompanied by young girls dancing rhythmically to the music of the drummers. 07.15 Missionary and his wife are teaching young men and women squatting and with western clothing. Transfer of knowledge by a young lady and a young man to individual fellow tribesman, using a simple textbook. 07.50 The Village of Enarotali, situated on a hill descending into the Wisselmeren (danau Pania) Papuas awaiting their turn at an open-air polyclinic, where a European lady is applying an eye dressing. Another lady is conducting a choir of boys and girls sitting against a shed. 08.28 Ekari's going in great numbers to the church, where indigenous minister leads the service. Men smoothing the ground squatting to build an airstrip. After completing all of them are being called together by the overseers. 09.00 Dutch civil servant scoops blue beads from a jute bag with a cowry shell into cardboard box. At his side are lots of shells and metal axes without handles. Women with head nets. The civil servant pays labourer, asked to come forward, a shell full of beads, hands over an axe and a cowry shell as payment to someone else, after which exuberant crowd performs a ring-dance. 09.43 Some tribesmen paying each other with beads. Young woman shakes ubi's (sweet potatoes) from her head net and receives payment in beads from the missionary's wife. Cleaning the ubi's by a servant whereas some young fellows are looking on. 10.03 Pulling down young trees by means of a heavy chain between two bulldozers. Pushing over tree trunks with bulldozers driven by Papua's. Big bulldozer pushes bulky heap of earth forward. Smoothing the embankment with shovels. Dragline drops a full scoop of earth on the embankment. Digger slews round a full scoop, emptying the contents in the container of a kipper, which speeds off immediately. Kippers on their way on roads partially finished. Surveyor with his theodolite. Kippers unloading their cargo. Planing-machine smoothes the top of the road, which then is sprinkled by a tanker en compacted with a steam-roller. After that the roadway will be sprinkled with bitumen. 12.13 General view of the construction of a slipway at Manokwari. Dozer pushes a heap of coral rubble, which is loaded onto a GMC by a dragline. De slipway under construction, portals and spans awaiting assembly, concrete sheds covered with corrugated sheets. A shipyard's crane unloading heavy ship's parts. A tug-boat the keel of which is being welded. Shipyard worker removes pressure gauges from a gas bottle. Workers dismount a ship's screw. General view of the ship yard. 14.02 Woodcutters are cutting from scaffolding around a tree a big wedge in a tree, which shortly afterwards tumbles down under heavy noise, tearing down young trees in its fall. Dragging out the tree trunk from the jungle to the collection yard on the coast, hanging on a tracked timber-wagon, drawn by a dozer. Cutting up the trunk in manageable pieces with a chain saw. Bulldozer draws a tree trunk aside, shoving it onto the deck of a pontoon. Sawyers walking with a chain saw on a tree trunk. Cutting of the rootstock into thick slabs with a horizontal chain saw. Putting laths between the slabs for drying. 16.41 Cutting a tap groove in a tree, through which the resin trickles, piling at the foot of the tree from where lumps of it will be put into jute bags. Papua's carry bags of resin (copal) from a shed outwards. Sewing up a bag with needle and thread. The bags are being carried to the beach where a coaster is at anchor, and from which a sloop is launched. The beach as seen from the vessel. The sloop is being rowed to the beach, to be met by bearers with bags of copal. A double body rowing prau alongside the coaster. The bags are being put into the sloop, an outrigger prau glides past. A coaster's crewmember operates the winch and another one holds the derrick, whereas a load of bags with copal from the sloop is being lowered into the hold. A double body prau pushes off. The pallet is being put overboard. 18.36 The coaster's wheel-house with the captain, who with his glasses checks the surroundings and the native helmsman at the wheel. The navigating officer takes his bearings from the shore and plots the course on the chart. View of the coastline near Hollandia-haven. The coaster Cycloop moors at the pier. A hotel-ship of the Royal Navy at anchor in the Humboldt bay. 19.13 Trading-vessel courses deliberately through a smooth sea to the harbour, approaches a pier, after which a sloop picks up the hawser lowered from the stern, which is belayed on the bollard by dock men on the pier. Dock men with unloaded bags on hand-trucks. Unloading of packing cases with proper derrick. Fork-truck with bundle of sagging reinforcement rods. 20.30 Panorama of Hollandia and Hollandia-Haven with winding road descending to the coast, along which loaded trucks are going upwards or downwards and along which modern residences are under construction. 21.08 Houses under construction. Native carpenter is planing a piece of wood. Papua brick-layer puts mortar on a wall, on which headman puts building-block. Papua carpenters are putting up windows. 21.26 End of part 1. 21.49 Teacher (guru) hits an empty oxygen bottle hanging from a tree, after which children are going up a little hill, entering the foreyard of a school. The board of the village school at the entrance of the school, built by the villagers themselves. Native teacher points to the parts of a native house of which the exploded drawing has been made on the blackboard. The young pupils on the forms in the open air. Close-ups of the teacher and attentive pupil. 22.29 Native school inspector enters the building and the classroom, shakes hands with the guru, at the same time the pupils stand up from their forms. The school inspector has a little chat with the guru, cleans the blackboard from the Malayan writing and writes a couple of sums down. The pupils work out the sums on their slates, after which the inspector checks the results. 23.10 Building complex of a secondary school, situated on a bay, where a Dutch teacher teaches a class of attentive working young Papua's. View across the bay of the mountains on the other side. Dormitory for the boys where they put their mosquito nets over the beds. They leave the dormitory with soap and towel going to the bay. Boys bathe in the water of the bay. 24.11 Walled-in technical school with indication of school-type. The building complex. An apprentice fitter at a lathe, he stops the machine and with a vernier calliper checks the work-piece. Battery of lathes lined up at an angle, where apprentices are working. Planks that are being used for a dwelling under construction. Teacher shows apprentice how to take the measures and how to fasten the ridge-pole. Apprentices are painting book-cases and other furniture in various tones. 25.04 Electrician sits high up in a power pole and winds wires. Papua boys are behind their Morse keys for their training as telegraph operators. Boys fly a weather balloon which is tracked through a special telescope, stand-mounted, during their training as meteorologists. 35.35 Open-air polyclinic. Papua maternity nurse prepares an injection. Nurse sucks up a blood-sample through a tube from a child. The maternity nurse administers the injection to the infant. Dutch anaesthetist puts mouth-cap on. Papua doctor's assistant looks up a card in the card tray. Anaesthetist and the Dutch surgeon, assisted by native theatre nurse and co-surgeon. Native accountant works with typewriter. 26.04 Big model of anopheles mosquito on the board at the entrance of the malaria health care station. Close-up of student looking through microscope during lessons assisted by 4 students. Lecturer indicates on the blackboard the various phases of the disease. 26.31 Mixing of DDT powder in a bucket of water, after which the mixture will be poured into a back tank, which will be brought on pressure by pumping. Disinfecting a house by spraying DDT liquid as protection against malaria mosquito. Putting a number with a stencil, as a sign that the house has been treated. Supplying anti-malaria tablets to the inhabitants of the sprayed houses, who take the tablets immediately, with the exception of a baby in his mother's arm. 27.27 Placard stating Research Station Kota-Nica near the Agricultural Research Station. General view of the trial plots. Students of the agricultural education working in a hothouse. Pulverising protective stuff between the fingers, through which cocoa kernel will be rolled, before putting it in the ground. Transplanting seedlings. Inoculating a young trunk, bearing fruits already, after which the split bark will be dressed. Tipping of fruit-trees with special prune saw. Spraying the plantation with motor sprayer on the back. Grass mowing with horticultural tractor. Ploughing with a disk-plough after a caterpillar-tractor. Tractor with blade-plough. Instruction about maintenance of tractors and agricultural equipment. 28.35 Pilot project of small rice-plots, being inspected by a Dutch adviser. Village headman calls the people banging an empty oxygen bottle. The people flock together in front of the headman's house looking on how a laid table is readied. The tax collector with the headman at the table, where every householder has got to settle his taxes. 29.28 Uniformed civil servant, accompanied by a group of students of the administrative school, walks through community plantation to the resident's coconut plantation to be shown the numbers and the size of the palms, on which the disputed assessment is based. The civil servant and his train continue their way through banana plantation. Hearing of a lawsuit by official. Surrounded by the people the official sitting at a table and assisted by a clerk hears both sides on a quarrel. After that he pronounces sentence. 30.34 Placard above the entrance of the police college at Hollandia, where lined up detachment of recruits is practising. Students in battledress are taking the hurdles of the assault course near the school. Platoon marching through a valley in the interior where a shallow pool is forded. Laying out a bivouac in the jungle, cooking rice on an open fire and the building of a shelter from palm leaves. The men are queuing up for the distribution of the cooked rice. Dutch instructor eating his plate of rice. 31.49 Signboard above the entrance of the lower nautical college. General view of the building complex. Students lined up for the flag parade. Hoisting of signal-flags. Heaving the lead from the lead-stand. The bridge, where are an officer, the helmsman and a sailor. To operate the ship's telegraph. Simultaneously hoisting up a sloop by a group of students. Close-up of student splicing hawser during roping instruction in the open air for the whole group of students. The students dismiss after the lessons are finished. Football match among the students with enthusiastic spectators on the gallery. 32.44 Group of girls are having a running contest. Javelin-throwing. High-jumping for boys. Cheering girls. 33.15 Letters PMS on the school lawn for the Junior Secondary School. The main building and one of the classrooms where older pupils are receiving geometry lesson. 33.46 Marcus Kasiepo, prominent Papua representative to the South Pacific Conference, delivers a speech, which is being recorded. Traffic controller speaking in the mike, from the tower of Mokmer Airport on Biak, from where he - a Papua - has just talked down a KLM Constellation into the airport. The machine taxies to the tarmac. Luggage lorries behind a 4 wheel Unimog arrives at the machine, from where the passengers are leaving. The passengers go through the arrival lounge. They go through the customs, open their trunks and pay import duty if necessary. 35.10 Petrol truck arrives followed by mobile compressors. The KLM Hotel 't Rif to which the new-comers are going. DC-3 machines on the airfield. The traffic controller who has talked down a DC-3 and a Twin-Otter. Piper Cub taking off from an airstrip. A Royal Navy PBY Catalina amphibian flying-boat taking off from the airfield. DC-3 making a low pass over Mokmer pulls up and gains height. 36.13 Air view of the runway, of a strip on an open plain in the interior, of a dead straight concrete airstrip on the edge of the jungle. Of a coarse strip, hardly recognizable from the air, of the oil drilling rigs in the Muturi valley, and the pipeline to the loading port in Klamono. The red painted oil tanks on an elevation near the oil rigs, the living quarters for the employees, the landing-stage in the river. A strip across an island surrounded by an azure sea. New residential area in Holandia-Stad and the oil tanks and sheds in Hollandia-Haven on the Humboldt bay. The slipway at Manokwari. 38.30 Text: The End with Logo of the Government Information Service. 38.39 The End. (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl)

1. New Guinea Chronicle 12: Information film for Dutch cinema audiences concerning life in Netherlands New Guinea. The film shows a medical expedition, led by the District Health Officer, W.M. Visser, entering the jungle on the Casuarine Coast by prau to vaccinate Papuan tribes against yaws. Father C. Meuwese MSC also takes part in the expedition. The Papuans visited have not yet been brought under gouvernment control, but they succeed in winning the confidence of the locals and the whole village is vaccinated with penicillin. The film contains some shots of local daily life. 2. New Guinea Chronicle 15: District Officer (DO) of the Civil Administration in uniform and his team go on board a motorboat, sailing a broad river, passing Papua.s on a raft and finally heading for the shore. 06.29 Village on the slope the team are climbing. 06.48 Long huts, covered with palm leaves, built next to each other on a mountain plateau. 06.51 Officer shakes hands with the big man and talks to him via an interpreter. 06.59 Papua nurse inspects the soles of a patient.s feet, disinfects the left buttock, gives a hypodermic and puts a plaster on the left lower leg. 07.18 Officer seated with the back against a hut between big men talking about local affairs. 07.29 A piglet is killed. spark are blown to fire in a handful of straw and a wood fire is made. 07.43 The killed piglets are held above the fire to singe the hairs off. Then the skin is scratched clean with the fingers and cut open with a bamboo knife. 08.00 Bunches of leaves are brought for the steam bundle and large stones are deposited in the fire. The leaves are spread in an shallow hole. Heated stones are put on with forked poles or liana carriers. Sweet potatoes are placed on the stones and on top of them come alternating layers of leaves, stones and vegetables. The meat is put on last. The bundle is sprinkled with water and covered with large leaves that are bent and lashed up. 08.49 The medicine man announces the reason for the feast. 08.57 The officer and the big men sit close to the steam bundle waiting for the food to be ready. 09.05 The officer thanks the big men for their hospitality by giving one a big shell and the other a hunting knife. For everyone else he gives a roll of indigenous tobacco. 09.22 The officer sitting between the big men, eating. 09.30 Close up of two women with carrying nets are greeted by two missionaries and the son of one of them with the .knuckle greeting.. 09.45 The missionaries visit a local in his hut and explain to him they want to buy wood by indicating his axe and a tree trunk. 10.09 Papuans cut a thin tree at breast height and chop it up in usable pieces. 10.25 Chopping up a piece of wood. Two sticks are placed in the cloven wedge and bend back to increase tension on the wood and make it easier to split. 10.41 Missionaries pay the price agreed on in shells. 10.52 Missionaries go on, with the son on his father.s shoulders. They meet a villager and the boy is lifted on his shoulders. They all go down to a pair of huts. 11.21 A long straight path leading to the missionary post. The younger missionary teaches a Papuan how to cycle. 11.46 The older missionary has an older and younger Papuan say a word in their language. Young coastal Papuans that are educated to become teachers are listening. 3. New Guinea Chronicle 21: The New Guinea Council Building. A placard with the composition of the Council in Indonesian and a poster announcing the coming elections with a strip over it calling people to vote. Election posters, placards and banners. 03.40 Fruit displayed along the road. Lady pays saleswoman. Small .pasar (market) with girl under a .pajong (umbrella). 03.55 Woman with a sandwich-board promoting candidate Mori. From the other side comes a crowd with banners supporting Mr. De Rijke. 04.12 Sign asking to vote for Mr. De Rijke and another asking to vote for Mr. Mori at polling station 6. Arriving voters. 04.29 From the veranda the chairman of the polling station receives the voting convocations from the voters. Has the names checked by two clerks, gives the voters a ballot-paper with which they enter a polling booth with curtain 04.45 List of election candidates fixed onto curtain. 05.07 Woman voter leaves polling booth putting her ballot-paper in the wooden ballot-box 05.17 The chairman directs in a friendly way the people to the polling booth. A European lady puts her paper in the ballot-box, followed by a native, a European, a Papuan woman and a massive Dutch lady. 05.45 The seal on the ballot boxes lock is being cut and given to the chairman of the election board. Clerk opens the ballot box and puts the ballot-papers on the table in front of the chairman. The whole of the Papua audience is looking on. (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl)

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) Part 1: 00.31 Shots: Sunset seen from airplane on its way to Biak. 00.36 Air-shot of high speed launch, leaving white wake in blue sea. Air-cooled aircraft engine of amphibian aircraft flying over launch, moored at a buoy. 00.40 Pilot talking in mike. Air view of Biak town and the runway. Tarmac of airport Biak, with KLM Constellation in front of the station building and Kroonduif amphibian taxiing past. 01.07 Harbour panorama, newly built bungalows with red eternite roofing. Beautifully laid out gardens. A housewife watering the plants and a baby standing in the pen. A well maintained road. 01.34 Building under construction: Nigimij (New Guinea Import and Export Company) office. Bungalow with red roof. Telephone exchange. Lettering 'De Meerpaal' (the mooring-post) on the facade of the naval club, with personnel sitting outside having view of the ocean. 01.51 Boarding school at Merauke from which a long row of Papuan girls is leaving. Roomy tropical dwellings. The Resident's house. 02.24 Women doing the washing in communal wash-place. Two pupils riding on horseback on their way to school. Papuans levelling the grounds around newly built houses, delightful bungalows situated on a broad through road. 02.47 Ox-cart heavily burdened with slender stems. 02.56 Herd of cattle, grazing cows of tropical breed. Herd of goats scratching about. 03.08 Removing the thick bast of coconuts placed on poles that have sharp points and are driven into the ground. Mechanical harvesting of rice at pilot farm, using a combine. 03.27 Schooner moored on jetty, parents with children on the beach of Manokwari, sitting in the water, or lazing away in the shadow, while the children are amusing themselves in the shallow water. 03.57 Vista on the Manokwari harbour. 04.07 Shipyard Konijnenburg with modern side-launching yard. Small coasters on dry land. 04.21 Rustscraping Papuans. A couple of Papuans are painting a number on marine vessel's plaiting. A high yard's crane. 04.30 The bay, with the town on the far side. Delightful tropical dwellings and gardens with luxuriant vegetation. Cactus in bloom and orchids, little dog on stairs. 05.03 Big saw-shed of timber firm Manokwari with cyclone extraction installation. Moving a merbau trunk by dragline crane, operated by Papuan driver, who receives instruction from manager. Worker climbs a high stack of trunks. Stacking planks into high stacks on the timber-yard. 06.01 Forest of cocoa-trees, cocoa-fruits. 06.11 Citrus plantation with trees in rows, ripening grapefruits. 06.23 Papuan boy makes holes in the ground with pointed pole. The owner is looking on. Pineapple plantation. 06.35 Papuan boy tills the soil with hoe, bed with red cabbage under shadow shelter. Papuan boy with big heads of lettuce, peas beds with beanpoles. Owner himself harvests aubergines. 06.57 Fish-pond built with public funds, water supply through bamboo pipes, seedbeds marked with poles. A Javanese woman in small rice-plot. A boy takes with a net small fishes from a hatchery pond, puts them in an enamel dish to put them in a big pond. 07.32 END Part 2: 00.00 Poultry-farm of de-mobilized soldier who, together with his wife is feeding the younger and older leghorns near the hen-house. 00.19 Young European farmer calls his pigs, banging with a stick on an empty biscuit tin. Sow with piglets, pigs crowding around the trough. 00.36 The young farmer drives his herd of cattle onto the tree clad grassland. Farmer playing with his dog by the waterside, while the cows are driven back from the sea to the beach by boys. 01.04 Branch of richly flourishing orchids. Panorama of buildings around the bay of Manokwari. 01.17 Passenger ships moored on the pier of Sorong, where passengers are waiting with their luggage, while a big box is being loaded onto a truck. 01.35 White painted oil storage tank, long rows of Shell oil drums stacked three high. 01.41 Helmeted bugler blows horn signal, standing on hill above the barracks. Board at the entrance of the marine's barracks. Company of marine's marches along the camp, while at the same time a Papuan woman with her little daughter and a Javanese woman with her little son are passing by. 02.02 Residential area in Sorong with detached dwellings, built by the Nigimij for its employees consisting of roomy bungalows on grass lanes. Dwellings and telephone exchange under construction. Mosque, on the roof the half-moon with three-point star. Tropical church. Orient cinema. 02.36 Game moments of hockey match for girls and boys. Quartet of Papuan boys diving into the sea, and three European boys jumping into a swimming pool, having the day of their lives. 02.52 Papuan boys with a half drum little boat in river. 03.02 Nimble Papuan hands are grading copal (resin). 03.21 Departure of freighter from Sorong. 03.27 Victory freighter 'Schelde Lloyd' alongside the quay at Hollandia being unloaded, while a Fiat passenger car is being lowered carefully on the quay by the crane-driver. 03.52 With excavator coral debris is being loaded onto a truck. A mould with 5 segments is being filled with coral grit and automatically pressed into building blocks, which then are being stacked outside for drying. 04.25 Wall of brickwork, whereupon bricklayer puts a new layer. Corner profile is being erected. Pointing a brick-wall with mortar. The building under construction. 04.37 Papuan electrician sitting on wooden scaffolding of electricity pole fastens red and green wires to insulators. A house connection is being screwed down against the ridge of the roof. Painting the roof. 04.50 The built-up area on the head of the Humboldt bay. 04.59 Papuan family leaves dwelling-house and joins those waiting at the bus stop. When DAF bus of the GAD stops, all of them board the bus, sit down and the driver locks away the money. Bus drives off, and follows the hairpin road downwards. 06.09 Through-road near the Nigimij building. 06.20 European lady with three small children squats down with her purchase near a fish-monger on the road-side, the youngest child flops down on it. 06.45 Business-signs of Toko Bandung, of Restaurant Eng Nam, of Toko Eng Boo Hoo in Hollandia Harbour. 06.50 Office and print shop of the New Guinea Courier. Employees leaving the entrance of the Nigimij office building, in front of which lots of cars (mostly small Fiats) are parked. 07.02 Car traffic controlled by traffic police. Cars are climbing the road towards the town higher up. The yacht-club. 07.18 Sun-set over the sea. END

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): Papuans paddling fleet of canoe's across a lake. Zooming in on map of Netherlands New Guinea. Air views of mountains covered with jungle and clouds in the valleys. 01.24 Sunset. Flames are consuming houses in a village. Crowd of children storming into the water for greeting fleet of canoe's of which the crews take bleached skulls ashore. 02.42 Air views of broad river with narrow tributaries, meandering through rain forest. A single-engine Piper cub landing on a grass landing-strip, watched by Papuans, after which the freight is being unloaded and carried upwards by Papuans. 04.15 Missionary walks at the head of a row of bearers through the trackless country, is being halted by Papuans menacing with bows and arrows, after which he performs the knuckle greeting with a couple of them and follows them to their settlement. 05.59 Dancing procession of painted and armed Papuans, carrying along coconuts on poles, which they put down by the side of the altar, while the priest is putting on the vestments for the Holy Mass. Standing and kneeling between the two assistants in liturgical outfit, he celebrates the Holy Mass. The Papuan crowd, looking on, participates praying and crossing themselves. After that the priest puts a Host on the tongue of the communicants, and blesses the coconuts and the faithful with a holy-water sprinkler made of leaves. In the end the coconuts cut loose are carried off, and all this under continuous traditional singing, accompanied by drums from Papuans who didn't participate in the ceremonies. 10.29 Native woman teacher practises a song with a circle of Papuan girls of a primary school, accompanying it with gestures. At nuns' school girls are learning machine sewing, embroidering, ironing and mat-and-basket making. 11.18 Narrow-gauge train brings up students from the agricultural school. They will be spraying a field with insecticide in a single line. 12.00 Two lepers posing. The administration of injections to Papuans in an open-air polyclinic. Doctor examines belly (spleen) of boy on stretcher, after which native assistant takes blood from the boy's ear-lobe. 13.34 Girls are working the field with a hoe. 13.51 Extracting copal from the agathis-tree in the jungle. First the tappers make funnels, and then they cut V-shaped notches in the trunk. They collect the congealed resin and put it into back pouches. 15.17 Papuan woodcutters down trees in wood complex at Oransbari 16.05 Papuans on board fishing cutter 'De Goede Hoop' receive instruction about the setting of fishing-nets, the operation of the winch drawing in the net, after which they cut off the fins of the young sharks throwing the fins and the sharks in separate baskets. 17.39 Technical school, where Papuan boys are learning woodworking, such as: planing, wood carving, making and fitting of window-frames, autogenously welding and the operation of a turret lathe. 19.21 Building complex where Papuan boys receive theory classes on how to work with farming machinery and theodolite, and the maintenance of tractors. After this they ride out with caterpillar tractors and wheel tractors, threshing grain. The students working a field with a plough and a disc harrow, both machines pulled by a caterpillar dozer. 21.49 Road construction by means of an earth moving bulldozer, a road planer, pneumatic chisel and a spoon-dozer. Car traffic on the finished road from Hollandia Harbour to the upper town. 24.11 Erecting of an outer wall of blocks during house construction, of which the corrugated asbestos sheets for the roofing are cut to fit with a handsaw. Panorama of residential area with small family houses. 24.49 Air view of mountains densely covered with jungle. 25.08 Relief map of New Guinea on which the names of filmmakers are printed. 25.56 END.

Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl) 00.04 Title: Rescue from Shangri-la. 00.15 Mountain area in New Guinea with clouds. 00.36 Varying air pictures of the landscape in which the survivors have been located. 01.03 Air view of Papua village in the valley. 01.08 Close-up parachutist near open plane door. The landing area in the valley. Parachutist near door ready to jump. Parachute jump (shot taken from the ground) 01.23 Woodcovered valley. Mountain ridge. 01.31 Rescue party of Filipino parachutists with survivors (all of them with rucksacks). The survivors are: Corporal Margaret Hastings (Maggie), John MacCollum (Mac), and Sergeant Decker (Walter?). (Names taken from spoken commentary.) 01.48 Papua bearer. 01.54 Broken hilly terrain with patrol and bearers. 02.02 Papua bearers with penis gourds. 02.12 The patrol. View of the valley with parachutists' encampment. 02.25 In the encampment (with four tents) Welcoming of the new arrivals. 02.55 Close-up Maggie with mirror, combing her hair. 03.05 Dakota in the air. Walter speaks with the plane's pilot via 'handy-talky'. 03.15 The party having meal. Close-up Maggie eating, as well as the other members of the party. 03.26 Dakota flies over the encampment to throw down parachutes with medicines, clothing and foodstuffs. 03.34 The burns on Maggie's legs are being treated. 03.42 Group of Papuas. Contact is being made with the inhabitants of the camp. Close-up Papuan with pig teeth through the nose and a shell string around the neck. 04.19 Group of Papuas visits the encampment with their 'Queen'. Close-up of the Papua Queen with elaborate headdress (made of feathers?). Close-up Maggie, shaking hands with the Papua Queen. 04.30 Members of the expedition on their way to the Papua village. 04.37 Survey of a well tilled piece of land. Two Papua women working their garden. Meeting on the road with a couple of Papuas. 04.49 Look-out post of long sticks bound together. A handful of Papua huts. Papua children with their grass skirts. 05.08 Maggie talking with 'Queen' and group of Papuas. 05.17 Papuachildren and women. Group of Papua warriors with Maggie. Maggie's hairs being combed by Papua women - Papua style. Papua huts in landscape. 05.38 Dakota throws off parachute with supplies which are recovered by the inhabitants of the camp. Walter talking with pilot via the handy-talky. 05.57 Maggie learns archery from a couple of Papuas. 05.59 Inhabitants of the encampment are waiting for the glider to land, which will take them from the valley. Close-up of Maggie, waiting and smoking a cigarette. 06.08 Encampment of tents. Inhabitants working. Two sucking-pigs on the wooden spit, Maggie joins the roasting. The roasted pigs are cut up and distributed. Party eating. 06.36 Group of Papuas visiting. They teach their language to members of the expedition and show their bodily strength and ways of fighting. 07.00 Close-up of kauri shells, used as means of payment. 07.05 A Papua is being rubbed with anti mosquito-oil. Maggie and a Papua are looking on. Close-up of a threesome of Papuas. 07.20 Parachutes are being put down on the terrain, the ground being levelled, long poles are being used for pegging out the landing grounds for the glider. Walter speaks with the pilot of the Dakota on the radio. 07.34 Dakota with glider in the distance between clouds. It approaches and makes a reconnaissance circuit over the landing site. Maggie and the others are looking on full of expectation. Walter with radio and tent in the foreground. Plane is being piloted down. Glider is loose and comes down for the landing. 08.31 The plane has landed and the encampment members join the plane. Walter and Mac near the glider. 8.36 The plane is being put into the correct position for taking off. Papuas join in helping. Close-up of the plane's nose. 08.47 Nylon drag-rope about a 100 yards long is being laid out. Poles with the drag-rope are being put up, thus making a catch-noose. 09.04 Dakota makes a trial round. Close-up: Draw-hook on nose of glider. 09.13 Maggie and the others prepare for leaving. Close-up of catch-noose on two long poles. The drag-rope is put onto the glider's draw-hook. Close-up of Maggie with her luggage near the glider. 09.28 Glider ready for starting, draw-plane nears, picks up the draw-rope with a hook. The glider gets off the ground, pulls up alongside the encampment. 09.54 Close-up of the glider pilot in cockpit. The two planes are circling above the valley to get across the mountains. Close-up glider's pilot. 10.02 Draw-plane and glider in the clouds. Layer of clouds over the mountains. Mountain chain in the clouds and the Sentani lake below. Pilot in the cockpit. 10.21 Runway of airport Hollandia. The glider touches down, taxies and gets to a halt. 10.44 Welcoming. Close-up of Maggie, Mac and Walter in front of the glider's side - name of the plane 'Fearless Faggot' 11.04 FILM END.