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Recording on 'A Home of Our Own' is made by Cathay Film Service Private Limited, complete with commentary. Details of footage include:
1) reflection of high-rise in water, then high-rise itself;
2) sub-title reads: Housing Development Board of Singapore;
3) group of students in uniform waiting for bus, when bus rolls up, they board;
4) several blocks of high-rise from various angles, various types;
5) people - walking along road, on stairs; buses on roads;
6) children in pool;
7) statue of Stamford Raffles;
8) houses (long shot), rooftops;
9) port section - river, sea - bumboats carrying goods, tourists; sea-going ships - docked; lorry - unloading huge baskets filled with goods;
10) old Singapore:
a) old buildings; aerial shot of stalls on road - very close together; close up - people buying; students crossing road; bumboats;
b) street with clothes hanging out to dry; things spill on to roads;
c) girl washing, boy bathing by pouring water in bucket on himself;
d) old 4-storey flats (type built by SIT);
e) street scene - crowded with people; hawkers selling food; cars moving slowly with people walking on sides of road;
f) old buildings again;
g) children playing or standing in back lane of old flat;
11) early 1960s - first HDB building programme, uniform blocks of flat - exterior views from various angles; wet market with people buying; shops selling different items; day care centre with women and children; children in pool; hawker centre with food stalls open, tables full of people eating or waiting for food;
12) Queenstown neighbourhood - flats; school children in field doing PE; people walking; town centre - bank, supermarket, emporium, cinemas, library, children playing;
13) flats again, pedestrians, shopping precinct;
14) 2 boys in school uniform walking along flat corridor, boy also in uniform comes out from flat, all three walk on, come out from life and board bus;
15) several school children crossing road with warden's help; pedestrians crossing road and on overhead bridge;
16) girls and boys in various uniforms leave school, walk on;
17) buses - adult passengers boarding, likely going to work; in background - roads, vehicles, buildings;
18) old style workshop - ironmongers, spill on to pavement; big logs of wood; machines running, with one or two men keeping an eye;
19) urban renewal in city centre:
a) demolition of old buildings; exterior views of several new buildings from various angles; high rise and sea front in foreground;
b) port - sea-going ships, moving; containers on ground; unloading mechanically; men at work; trailer moving out;
20) inside factory - young men and women at work, sitting in front of various equipment and machines from various angles;
21) several men, women with some in unfiorm, walking out of building, some towards buildings, some on roads;
22) old scene - crowded street; aerial view huge umbrellas of stalls selling various goods; close up - crowds of people buying or selling;
23) reclamation:
a) tractor pushing earth in front of it;
b) spreader - its long arm tossing earth brought to site by conveyor belt running across land some distance away;
c) bucket wheel excavators dig steel spurs into hill side to dislodge earth;
24) new HDB buildings - from various angles;
25) garden city:
a) people walking along paths lined with trees and plants on both sides;
b) highways - also lined with trees and shrub on both sides;
c) green plants, flowering plants in open space;
26) HDB nursery:
a) pots of shrubs, trees, plants;
b) watering plants;
c) people doing various chores;
27) public parks and garden -
a) various views;
b) men, women and children moving around, looking;
c) adventure playground - children playing on various facilities - slides, circular structure with children standing on it, and a few pushing it round;
d) sports facilities - high jump by teenagers; pool full of chilren and young people;
28) birds in cages - several hanging from big tree; people sitting at tables nearby, some looking at birds;
29) children playing tug-of-war; sprint race at stadium;
30) plans of buildings; exterior of buildings, people walking along road;
31) inside new flats:
a) 3-room flats - furnished; lift; common corridor; inside kitchen, woman going about her chores; modern toilet and sewage system; lighting; sitting room area;
b) one-room unit - with girl playing; another writing with adult beside her;
c) 5-room flat - bedroom; kitchen fitted with modern kitchen cabinets; sitting room with couple and 2 children; dining area - same family of four and older woman;
32) HDB maintenance service centre - girl operators answering phone and responding; Marine Parade area office - repair vans parked, one moving away, 2 maintenance men arrive at block of flats, talking into 2-way radio, attend to lift, task completed, go off;
33) panning across several areas of several high rise;
34) men and women at work - some men at drawing boards working with drawing compasses; others doing other work; women keying into machines, typing; printer printing out; 'server' room with a woman changing spool; spool room;
35) construction site - piling going on;
36) panning across buildings; construction work on site; tractor levelling land; lorries loaded with earth moving out;
37) different racial cultures:
a) mosque, minaret; Malay men in full Malay costume;
b) Chinese temple, people praying; Chinese opera stage with actors and in front the audience;
c) dragon dance in action, crowds of people watching; group of grils doing a dance; men on stilts, doing various stunts;
d) Malay wedding group;
e) floats on wheels;
38) people walking across grass patch; young girls sitting on the grass;
39) sea-going ships on sea.