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News from Indonesia: youth care

Week number 47-04

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

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A boarding school where boys from the Dutch East Indies receive a vocational education has been set up by the ministry of Social Affairs near Batavia. SHOTS: - trumpeter sounds the reveille; - the boys get out of bed; - the muster is held in front of the building; afterwards the boys stand in line with a food bowl; they get rice pudding(?) and eat this around long tables in the open air; - ext. several buildings of the boarding school; - the boys get instructions and practice a.o. drawing shapes, forging, metalworking, filing and woodworking; - the boys are sitting on wooden beds in the dormitory and relax: one writes a letter; another one plays the banjo; a third cleans a rifle.

Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:
1 January 1947
Length:
01:59

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video
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User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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