21 minutes of 1927 colonial tea propaganda that slaps harder than it should.
A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.
Cinematography
Stunning 1927 Sumatra landscape shots, absolutely gorgeous and guilt-inducing.
Production
Pristine preservation of early Dutch colonial documentary filmmaking.
Director
Willy Mullens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
NILS was a massive Dutch agribusiness syndicate controlling vast swaths of Indonesian land; this film was essentially corporate PR disguised as ethnography.
Willy Mullens was a prolific Dutch filmmaker who ran a film factory in The Hague—this was one of many 'colonial interest' shorts produced for Dutch audiences hungry for exotic empire content.
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