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A compilation film in four parts about the “beauty, treasures, inhabitants and culture” of the Dutch East Indies. The film was compiled composed by Johan Gildemeijer using material that J.C. Lamster and colleagues shot for the Colonial Institute...

A reportage about the rice culture in the Dutch East Indies, with a focus on processing the sawahs (wet rice fields).

The images were shot on Java, Bali and with the Minangkabau on Sumatra.

Travelogue about Palembang, a harbour city located on the banks of the Musi River on the island of Sumatra.

Houses along the river, panoramic views across the river with its water flora, businesses and transport.
A lot of the houses...

A train journey to central Java, from Willem I to Djocja (Yogyakarta), filmed from the front of the train ('phantom ride').

Landscapes along the route; stations; the main road in Magelang, a Chinese district, a sugar factory, tobacco...

Documentary footage of the traffic around the railway viaduct op pasar-besar, around half past one in the afternoon.

The camera focuses on the viaduct and on both sides of the traffic artery that crosses it. Images of traffic chaos,...

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) in Permanangan on the east coast of Sumatra.

An informational film with shots filmed from a boat in the port of Batavia (Jakarta) in the former Dutch East Indies, around 1912.

A journey through Weltevreden (in Batavia), mostly filmed from a car. We also see shots of an opium den, a visit to the Museum of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, and a football match.