Wet earth and warm people (TEFC)

Candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people, in and around the capital, Jakarta. Following where chance leads, the film captures the flavour of life in this fertile crescent of tropical islands as it focuses on the Indonesian people caught between the past and the conflicting options of the future - to change or not to change from long-established patterns of life to ones more influenced by western technology. Awards: Melbourne, Atlanta, San Francisco and Toronto.

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Credits

director

Michael Rubbo

producer

Tom Daly

production company

National Film Board of Canada

Duration

00:51:00:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1971

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

011797

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Canada

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Indonesia - Politics and government

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Indonesia - Social conditions

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Travelogue

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)

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Canada, 1971

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