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The 16mm film is not a packaged production but contains filming on Work Brigade Team Help Farmers to Subside Flood. There is no audio. Details of the footages are as follows:
1) Damages:
a) Vegetable plots, vegetables and plants damaged by flood;
b) Trees uprooted, branches strewn on ground, covered under earth;
c) Tracks - part of earth washed away, looks uneven;
d) Banana trees still standing, with only few leaves, all torn;
e) large areas of land are empty;
2) Part Map of Singapore showing rivers and areas affected by flood;
3) Rivers and Water:
a) Several areas of water (film is dark, cannot see clearly);
b) Water flowing down quite fast, branches, twigs, wood in the waters;
c) Two jets of water shooting on to empty land;
4) Digging out Earth from Water:
a) Several men using changkul and shovel to dig out earth;
b) Crane with shovel bucket dredges earth out and pile in heap on land;
5) Work Done To Help Farmers:
a) Tractor used to level uneven ground;
b) Building gutter by side of road - using changful to create depths and lay rectangular tiles;
c) Men working on timber building and zinc roof;
d) Man inside deep drain, aligning huge cyclinders in straight row as they are rolled down;
e) Use equipment with tank-like wheels and shovel bin to pick up earth in water and toss on lorry; once lorry is full, it moves away;
f) Man building wall by side of road, woman brings concrete over in two pails;
g) Another two still deepening gully with changkul;
h) Man using cane rake sweeping broken branches, twigs and wood into one pile; another pile already set to burn;
i) Builldings - building fully completed, one building wooden walls are put in place, painting one wall; another building walls are not up yet; third one working on base stone for vertical pole;
j) Underneath road water flowing through circular tunnel;
k) Lorry rolling up and tipping over its load of black earth; tractor moves over earth to flatten and spread across track;
6) Piling:
a) Several men standing on horizontal plans over space - to begin piling;
b) Few men still digging deep down, earth is passed to women forming human chain;
c) Framework of steel taking shape with deep hole below ground;

7) Harvesting: plants cut by tractor;

8) Motor Boat Engine:
a) Two men picking up fishing gears make for boat in sea;
b) One using paddle to manoeuvre boat out in sea, other man starts motor but cannot start after several tries;
c) Carry motor to put outside house, cover it with sack;
d) Two men in khaki uniform come by boat to check motor, one starting to write, other checks motor and does some fiddling, talking to owners;
e) Owner pulls cable and motor starts; installs motor in boat, and two men set off to sea.