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News from New Guinea: wood winning on Batanta
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Week number 55-33
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
- Type:
- video
- Length:
- 01:37
- Publication date:
- 1 January 1955
- User:
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Source:
- WEEKNUMMER553-HRE0000D698
Wood winning on the island of Batanta. Papuan people cut the Merbau trees down by hand and chop them into pieces, a bulldozer drags the trees to the coast where they are hauled onto a pontoon.
