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The 16mm film is not a packaged production but contains filming of  Vegetable Farm and Orchid Nursery. There is no audio. Details of the footages are as follows:
1) Vegetable Farm:
a) Watering vegetables from two cans suspended from a pole across the shoulders; filling up cans with water in ground without taking cans off pole;
b) With chengkul touching up vegetable plots, turning earth in watery plot ;
c) Sprinkling white material on plots which have vegetables growing or some or empty;
d) Planting seedlings pulled out from adjacent plot, certain seedlings planted spread out; unused seedlings put in basket;
e) Long shot of area completely green - vegetables fully grown; small area of water next to sloping roof of attap; vegetables planted in rows in wet bed;
f) Washing roots of vegetables in water in ground;
g) Spraying vegetables; filling container with some liquid;
h) Some gadget ( cannot see clearly as film is too dark;
i) Brushing vegetable in plot with broom with short handle;

2) Eggs and Cocks:
a) Trays and trays on table with two men in background; others walking by;
b) Few cocks roaming in open area;

3) High-rise building - external view.

4) Orchid Nursery:
a) Various types of orchids of various colours, long stalk like the Vanda, and short ones;
b) Orchids growing in ground and in pots, on long benches or on ground; orchids hanging from long poles;
c) Orchids in bloom or without blooms;
d) People looking at orchids on display, a few taking photos.