The Coveted East Indies (silent)

Description: Content notice: European colonial leaders at work in territories they referred to during the colonial era as "East Indies," otherwise known as Indonesia and other islands of the Malay archipelago.

Trims from a 1941 film promoting colonial interests in Indonesia. Primarily consisting of footage of military training exercises conducted on the island of Java by soldiers of Indonesian or Malay archipelago regional heritage. Some sequences show unidentified European colonial representatives and European naval forces as well as Japanese naval forces. Second half of reel repeats sequences found in first half of reel.

Information on can:
"Java War Scenes- 1941 / Original 6 Dupe / The Coveted East Indies / Original Cut Pic- 230' / Print from Cut Pic- 170'"

Information on leader:
"Coveted East Indies / dupe cutouts from 1941 lecture film"

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Subjects: 1940s, Colonialism, War, Military, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, World War II

Tags: airports; air fields; military jets; Royal Air Force; prop jets; propeller jets; audiences; planes taking off and flying in formation; European aristocracy; army; soldiers; marching in formation; soldiers marching with gas masks; military training exercises; machine maintenance; firefighting equipment; soldiers using fire hose; military personnel; medical response exercises; carrying people on stretchers; emergency preparations; ambulances; tanks; military hardware; rifle exercises; Stadswacht Batavia sign; city guard; Dutch colonialism; rice paddies; camera tricks; countryside; agriculture; farms; farmland; harvesting; air rifles; canons; war exercises; European architecture in the Malay archipelago; Java sea; military ships; European naval officers; national flag of Japan; national flag of France; at-sea naval exercises; islands viewed from ship; preparations for World War II; shorelines; choppy water; whitecap; sailboats; sunsets;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1941; 1943

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Geographical Location: Philippines; Malaysia; New Guinea; Borneo; Indonesia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Java, Indonesia

Genre/Form: nonfiction, documentation

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle triangle, circle triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 411