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Our Man In Borneo Pt1/5 221128-02X | Footage Farm

289 views · Published 11 December 2013 · 11:01 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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Our Man In Borneo  [Part 1 of 5]
Busy Philadelphia street scene - pan to TV-10 presenter John Facenda introducing film re four young Philadelphians who traveled to Borneo as Peace Corps volunteers.  Street scenes in Malaysia - city traffic.  Jungle - female volunteer in uniform along path & across stream to isolated village.  Local kids play netball watched by another female volunteer.  INT volunteer nurses tend to sick girl.  Male volunteer along rural street - VO re how Borneo has changed him - along river in small boat.  
01:14:32  Back to Philadelphia & presenter on street - "...they arrived in a world of difference".  Kuala Lumpur street scenes - modern buildings & traditional market stalls - people in westernized clothing.  Rural village.  Military helicopters carry men & supplies to Indonesian border - aerial - VO re threats to Malaysia's security - British Royal Marines ? guarding border region - barbed wire fences - PoV through jungle, Marine makes hand signal when noise heard.  Jeep along road on safer East coast - idyllic beach scene w/ coconut trees - man shins down tree after dropping coconuts.  Fishing village - group of kids pose for camera smiling.  Reporter Peter Duncan to camera w/ microphone re typical Malaysian homes - architecture shots.  Kids play & board school bus.
01:18:54  School sign 'Sekolah Tengku Mahmood - Besut'; EXT school building.  INT Peace Corps volunteer teaching Malay kids - reads from Dickens' Great Expectations & asks girl what the word loiter means - VO re local traditions & letters exchanged w/ students in Philadelphia.  Kids onto bus for journey home from school.  01:21:08  Schoolgirl interviewed at home w/ brothers & sisters - answers questions about school - "do you think it's important to learn to speak English?".  Continued...
Charity.  Travelogues.  Southeast Asia.  1960s.
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