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Prince of palms

Malaysia, 1956
film

An account of Malaya’s third largest industry. The coconut palm is grown as a crop mainly for the extraction of oil from its nut, but it is put to a var..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

The Coconut tree

United States, 1977
Similarity: 76%

Produce of Malaya

Malaysia, 1963
Similarity: 76%

Golden queen

Malaysia, 1956
Similarity: 76%

The Oil palm

United Kingdom, 1969
Similarity: 73%

Tree of wealth

India, 1944
Similarity: 73%

The Coconut

United Kingdom, 1971
Similarity: 72%

The Tree of life

United Kingdom, 1950
Similarity: 72%

Malayan rubber

United Kingdom, 1960
Similarity: 70%

Land of the hornbill

Malaysia, 1952
Similarity: 69%

The Malay Peninsula: people and products

United States, 1948
Similarity: 69%

The Cashew nut story

India, 1961
Similarity: 68%

Economic development

Australia, 1959
Similarity: 68%

Malaya: land of tin and rubber

United States, 1957
Similarity: 67%

Australian pineapples

Australia
Similarity: 67%

Song of the south

India, 1954
Similarity: 67%

Tin from Malaya

Malaysia
Similarity: 66%

Naturally it's rubber

United Kingdom, 1960
Similarity: 66%

South East Asia

United States, 1957
Similarity: 65%
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