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FIVE Faces of Malaya, Alexander Shaw's 3,000 footer of Malaya, is soon to be released. I say to Shaw "What shall I say about it?" He says "You might point out that travelogue makers say that it is impossible to give a good impression of a country when you are moving quickly through it. I was alone there for three weeks, and although it was pretty hard going, J shot eight thousand feet."
After Shaw, I went to a doctor from Malaya and asked him about the people, and if you remember the following description of his when you see the film you will realise that for a three-week impression Five Facesis pretty hot.
"Probably about one in a hundred Europeans have ever seen a Sakai or Samang (the first face of Malaya). They are very scarce and very shy. If one saw a European on a path far up country he would dodge into the jungle as fast as "scat". It is true that of recent years a few civil servants have made contact with them but so far as 1 know they have successfully avoided us. One tin prospector did, in early days, succeed in enticing a female Sakai to his bedroom but when he came to he had a bump on his head as big as a coconut and that is the nearest a European ever got, 1 imagine.
"Shaw says at this point : 'Recently a great deal of anthropological work has been done
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An exclusive note on the making of Strand's new film, together with some observations on the races, customs and love life of the Malayans, by a doctor who spent many years among them.