# "DUTCH EAST INDIES" 1930s EASTMAN EDUCATIONAL FILM JAVA, SUMATRA, BORNEO, INDONESIA XD5985

Produced by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in 1930, this silent educational film titled “The Dutch East Indies” was one of a series made for classroom use. It highlights rural and cosmopolitan life, industry, and handicraft in what is today the archipelagic nation of Indonesia. Property of the Board of Education of the City of New York, this particular Eastman Teaching film offers the viewer insight into life in Indonesia while it was still a Dutch colony - both in major cities like Java and within rural island communities. Through a compilation of rich black and white footage, the film also educates its audience on important handicrafts like silver work and batik printing as well as industry like bamboo, sugar cane, crude rubber, and rattan amongst others. Opening credits (0:10). Title page (0:11). Camera pans jungle of wild palm trees and other wildlife (0:18). Globe - pointer highlights the Dutch East Indies, what is now Indonesia (0:26). Map highlights Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes (Sulawesi), and Java (0:40). Terrace rice fields (0:59). Town life in Java (1:05). Dutch and Indonesians walk along the port where Dutch ships are parked (1:10). Cable car approaches along a tree-lined street (1:21). Automobiles parked alongside horse-drawn carts at market (1:36). Scenes of crowded streets at the market and around Java reveal how densely populated the city is (1:48). Two men string together a necklace (2:37). Ox cart (2:50). Another street scene - a mix of vendors,…

- Kind: Educational
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/8vUYMCJCu8queTsEd3mTFGVcd13Umd)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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