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The 16mm film is not a packaged production but contains filming of several aspects of farming -    There is no audio. Details of the footages are as follows:
1) Vegetable Farm:
a) Chilly plants; table on foreign trade for chillies for January-July 1963; Singapore map showing six villages growing chillies;
b) Big leaf vegetables,
b) Map of Singapore - 5 names for farming;
c) Plots with vegetables or some empty;
d) Names - Lee Brother's Farm (Jurong); Neo Kim Keok Farm (Lim Chu Kang); Chin Hup Heng Farm Lim Chu Kang);
e) Spraying vegetables with long handle sprayer, operates like bicycle pump;
f) Watering vegetable from two cans;
g) Man turning earth with changku;
2) Rural Amenities Improvement Project:
a) Name - Sungei Poyan Project; part of Singapore map showing area;
b) Name - Tampines Veterinary Extension Centre and Changi Veterinary Extension Centre;
c) Bridge: winding and make-shift, across wide stretch of water; water flowing under it; girl in school uniform, walking on it, away from camera;
d) Bar graph of Sungei Poyan area; swamp land, map showing Sungei Poyan;
e) Group of men using cable pulley to knock pole from its head into ground;
f) Name - Jurong Veterinary Centre;
g) Public phone kiosk by road side;
3) Island and Waters:
a) Boat heading towards it;
b) On land - few houses, few people cycling with baskets on pillon, or pushing the bicycle; adults and children going about their way;
c) Several sampans in waters;
4) Fruit & Trees:
a) Banana plants;
b) Rambutan trees and flowers; man plucking rambutans; trees full of fruit, green and red ones; rambutans on ground with ants crawling on them, some with while specks on skin;
c) Big trees with branches spread out, low trees planted spaced out;
d) Pineapple - fruit;
e) Palm trees grown far apart;
5) Tobacco Culture:
a) Name - Tobacco Culture;
b) Tobacco plants;
6) Swamp area and vegetation; narrow strip of water with green fields on each side;
7) Animals:
a) Name - Tuas Veterinary Centre Official Opening;
b) Name - Yio Chu Kang Veterinary Centre Extension Centre;
c) Name - Poultry;
d) Hens in spacious wooden coop under house;
e) Feeding time for hens in coops;
f) Dark cocks and brown hens free range on the ground;
g) Name - Potong Pasir farming;
h) Name - Opening Ceremony of Tuas Veterinary Centre
8) Shop - provision cum wet market - in front of shop various items on display, fresh items in baskets; basket of rambutans;
9) Rural Tour:
a) Group of men walking;
b) Road with banner (in Chinese);
c) Name - Last Day, Monday February 3;
10) Names:
a) Lee Chai Huat Farm, Changi (Poultry);
b) Yap Chai Huat Farm, Changi (Pigs);
c) Colock Farm, Changi (Poultry);
d) Tampines Jalan San Kongsi (Poultry, pigs).