Sarawak Goes to the Polls
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sarawak Goes to the Polls. DESCRIPTION: Kuching is the tiny capital of Sarawak; a country about the size of England but with a population of only 750,000. Recently general elections have been held to elect the Government which will lead this British colony into independence within the Federation of Malaysia. Its been under British protection since 1888, and became a colony in 1946. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV the capital Kuching, pan polling station to queues of voters. MS voters (3 shots). Same into polling station. CU ballot slips, voting (2 shots). Voters walk along jungle path (3 shots). MS voters into polling station, ballot slip into box, pan - voters (2 shots). Supporters waving (2 shots).
- Keywords
- Politics and government
- Locations
- Malaysia; Sarawak
- Footage sources
- Central Office of Information
- Card file number
- 86991
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 101
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