PEOPLE OF THE INDIE
TFA-74B PEOPLE OF THE INDIES - 1940s 16mm color sync 10:31 - A U.S. government film about the modernization of Java in Indonesia by the Dutch and their participation in WW II.
Dutch east indies, Java, WWII soldiers with cannons, periscope, map of Indonesia, rice paddies, women picking tea leaves, piles of rice cuttings, pounding rice, Indonesian dancers, batik sewing and dyeing, woman with babies and batik clothes, metal workers making pots with hammers, making silk flowers, boys carrying flowers on head, crowds going to temple, umbrellas on tall sticks, temple carvings and statues, Banyan dancers, gamalan orchestra, Java, banquet, eating sitting on ground, volcanoes, hot springs, city, Batavia (now Jakarta ), traffic, government buildings, industrial machinery, factory workers, weaving cloth, assembly line, paper maker, people leaving factory, rice paddies, women harvesting rice, sisal plantation, hemp, loading boxes of tea, trucks on country roads, building roads, kids on bicycles, students, schools, businessmen, soldiers, science laboratory, airmen with leather helmets, getting into planes, Indonesia airmen, war planes,
Notes:
Java is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. Once the center of powerful Hindu kingdoms, Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in the economic and political life of Indonesia. Home to a population of 130 million in 2006[1], it is the most populous island in the world, ahead of Honsh