Malaysia: Tanah Merah Rubber plantation 1952

[MultiWorld2000]

nice video...I know this place...visited this plantation in 1993..that time I was working as Field Conductor at Sungai Mahang Estate near Salak Tinggi...now Sungai Mahang Estate Kubang Div no longer exits...housing estate now...

[blk148]

its all oil palm now. the whole tanah merah estate. all the way from sepang to lukut.

[MichaelRogge]

@blk148 Thanks for this update.

[lepankabu]

this estate at Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, not kelantan...

[MichaelRogge]

@lepankabu. Thanks I have changed the description. Did you live/work there?

[lepankabu]

@MichaelRogge, No, but this estate is familiar among the planters in malaysia, which was located training school for plantation executives from Guthrie. The estate still exists which now under Sime Darby Plantation.

[ali4330]

I was made to understand that the palantation workers were paid meagre wages.They barely could survived.The women plantations workers sometime were raped by the British plantation officers

[songkok7hitam]

@ali4330 get a life you communist plank! you lost the war and deal with it

[silenthunter07]

tq for supproting us on that time. =)

[minutegongcoughs]

Terrific footage, as always.

[akhenaten1881]

hey michael i wonder if u have old malaya videos with local spoken in it?

[MichaelRogge]

I wish I had, but the films were taken without sound as was usual at the time.

[macrick]

This video is of great quality!

What's used to film this?

[MichaelRogge]

It was filmed on Super X 16mm Kodak film.

[safzuan]

wow..thanks for uploading this vid...i think women in the 50s were so sweet... especially their smiles :)