Singapore - The Lion City, 1957

A visit to Singapore in 1957. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use only contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

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Travel & Events

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• Singapore
• Raffles Hotel
• stock footage
• travelogue
• 1957

[sonnymak]

As for those who want to hark back to those times, remember life expectancy was 45 for males and 48 for females. Most people if they lived to old age died in their late forties and early fifites. Only fortunate few could live to see 65. My own grand mother died at 48 in 61 and grand father at 53 in 63. Dont ever think those were better days.

[blooduhz]

no ERP, no COE, no GST, easy going-slow pace lifestyle, no NS for young men, cyclist can ride on the road safely as the car move very relax and slow, clean beach, no massive foreign pinoys and anehs swarming into this land. I would do anything and dont mind giving up internet, mp3(i can listen to much better quality, Vinyl) and iPhone just so i can go back to real Singapore.

[hoplite46]

@MrCassowary Long may the british stay away

[kassimbabaa]

singapore has no intresting features now except for new buildings, condos.constructions and more constructions for profits.THATS ALL.

[jakester1998]

HOLY SHYT!Haw Par Villa looks so nce back then!^^

[TheDayat98]

Old sultan mosque.Infront got road. Now dun have

[MrCassowary]

You must understand that this documentary is aimed at a British audience who wanted to believe that colonialism is a benigh force that benefited the "inferior races" that they ruled. I suggest you read, "The White Man's burden", by Kipling. So they showed the good side of Singapore. They don't put in the slums, the diseases, the riots, the poverty etc. Life is definitely better now.

[MrCassowary]

@sonnymak Singapore is definitely better today than it was in 1957. There were far more poor people in those days. Health care was terrible. Schools were bad. There were communists everywhere, Lots of people were unemployed. There were riots. According to Newsweek, we now have the world's most dynamic economy, the 4th best education system and 7 best health care in the world. We were nowhere like that in 1957.

This is a documentary showing the better side of Singapore for a British audience.

[belicwg]

a nice video, but not a true view of what Singapore really was. Only shows the rich upper class society, not the reality of the lives of the most ordinary folks. Streets weren't that clean, life wasn't that beautiful. This vid is a fake... and I'm a true Singapore, born and lived here all 26 years of my life.

[cwmak70]

@sonnymak couldn't agree more.

[sallyabraham]

wow. breathtaking !