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Synopsis :

Singapore 3 (6.54 mins, colour and b/w)
• View of Collyer Quay, Fullerton building (GPO) and Queens Walk
• Gleneagles Hospital building
• Exterior shot of Globe Theatre and Great World Amusement Park
• Street scenes
• Shanty town
• Hong Teck Public School
• Street vendors/hawkers
• Cooking on the street
• Times House
• Traffic policeman in shorts
• Exterior shot of Lido Cinema and Shaw House
• Magnolia icecream sign
• Van Kleef Aquarium
• Car trip to Johore Bahru (leaving Swettenham Rd)
• Causeway
• Malays fishing
• Indian grass cutters beside road

This film was shot by Jeffrey Allen Burns, when the family lived in Singapore in the late 1950s-mid 1960. It features some colour footage of Mr Burns' parents, Myrtle and Albert Burns, who visited Singapore for a couple of weeks between Dec 1959 and January 1960. The scene looking along Queens Walk (from .16 secs) shows Mr Burns' parents with Mrs Rosemary Burns (nee Goninan), wife of Mr Burns. It also contains some black and white footage of street scenes, including Gleneagles hospital, the Globe theatre, shanty towns, kids playing, satay vendors, etc. At 2.30mins it shows the Burns family car, with a girl sitting on her mother's lap. According to Mrs Burns, the old Chinese lady crossing the street (at 3.05mins) has bound feet. The scenes (from 4-4.50) show Mrs Burns, Mr Burns' parents and their daughter arriving at and entering the Van Kleef aquarium. The final scenes show the family driving from their house in 28 Swettenham Rd (owned by the Straits Times Press, near Dempsey Hill), across the causeway to Johore Bahru where they watched Malay fishermen on stilts with large nets, and see Indian grass cutters along the roadside.