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1) General Description:
Gedung Kuning or Yellow Mansion is at Sultan Gate just outside Istana Kampong Glam. It is originally the Rumah Bendahara (Bendahara House). 2) Content Description:
Begins at 00:00:36.
(00:00:36) MP Kampong Glam Zainul Abidin Rasheed talking to few persons. Two seats (wood and old fashion) covered with newspapers. MP talking to couple.
(00:00:22) Wood framework - at doorway linking to open areas - has elaborate design. People entering a door with bit of door curtain. In background a nenek sitting on old fashion type of chair of black wood with red cushion; on wall is relatively large mirror.
(00:01:40) Exterior shots: low wall, with roof of grey tiles and corrugated zinc. Wash area with slowing roof of corrugated since. Door open to room.
(00:02:03) Windows of upper floor with half louvres, half frames; overhanging eaves jutting out. Floor below - windows all louvres, on top semir-circle frame. Glass panel windows. Two doors, open. Wash area with sink.
(00:02:35) Nenek moving chair, then off camera. Two tables, one with tablecloth; few chairs. In kitchen/dining area - on table with tablecloth, old type food cover, flask, kettle, airpot; chairs; kitchen cabinet against a wall; oven; patch of spalled ceiling.
(00:03:10) Exterior shots - again windows - all glass panels, another all wood panels. Young man appearing from door, walking away; old man seem to be following. A metal door on a wall. Again windows - some no frame; panels, door; pillar at corner - ornate design at top; overhang eaves with metal gutter and wood boards.
(00:04:18) Cut to road, part of wall with upright Malay style. HDB block in distance. Back to Gedung - view from front to back of building - orange walls. Road again. Back to Gedung - blue wall. Windows of another section - all wood, other glass. Brick wall with pile of dead branches.
(00:05:21) Inside of Gedung, in open area - raised flower bed with rectangular frame. Three yellow stands with three flower pots.
(00:05:29) Dining area. Single bed with blue print bedsheet. Table and chairs with flask, etc. Another table with food cover, kitchen cabinet, chest of drawers, oven, table with crockery upside down to dry. Fridge with no door and empty metal shelves.
(00:05:43) Man off camera talking (English) about Gedung having three kitchens, top floor not use since he was in secondary school, several family members have moved to HDB.  Kitchen with plates stacked up. Ceiling with hole in absestos sheet. Wall - portion concrete fallen off. Baru giling on rosied stone sturcture.  Pot strewn on ground. Brown vase put under tap.
(00:07:10) In room, tablle with ewspapers, cable, iron. Old fashion type single bed with purple bedsheet,small suitcase and 2 packets next to bed. Old fashione wardrobe, mone door full length mirror/ Two drawers at base. Man's shirts hanging on partition. More suitcases on floor.
(07:40) Tiles with design of passageway, partitions on boith sides. Another section with yellow windows, above id rectangle with irom grill. More windows - blue in colour. Behind wall orange.
(00:08:35) Wood framework - at doorway linking to open areas - has elaborate design. Open space with a door close, another open. Green paint on wall fading. Above close door - rectangle open with brown wood frame, space filled with .elaborate design.
(00:09:23) Wood railing round two sides of stairs - green - uprights with intricate design. Looking down at front garden through iron grill work. Looking down staircase. Another wood staircase - brown colour.  Two doors - shut - on one side. Green partition.
(00:10:00) Ceiling fan. Room with metal bed, no bedsheet.. One side partition in wood. Table near bed. Green wall, painting peeling. Old fashion dressing table- dark brown - with 'moon' mirrow, two tiers of mini shelves. Old table. Rectangle panel with glass one side of wall. Windows open to floor, half height railing.
(00:11:06) Wood framework with elaborate design - close up from base of pillar. Rectangle opening with elaborate square pattern.
(00:11:40) Blue staircase, equally ornate. Looking two floors down stairs, tiles with old design. Windows with glass panels, some missing. From window looking down is courtyard. Blue walls - other side of staircase, dead end passageway. Chairs stacked on tables. One side green partition.
(00:12:50) Above door half circle with irong grill. Doors with blue borders. Two half height swing doors. Huge old style mirror. Two seats on other side of room. One window with half curtain.  Table with plates neatly stacked, stand fan, table with piles of documents and files.
(00:13:25) Room with two low seats and coffee table with flowers. Another mirrow on wall. Two doorways with short curtain at top of door. Several boxes stacked behind seats. Man adjusting small mirror.
(00:14:01) Outside in courtyard - 3 narrow doorways, wall next to them peeling. In one corner clothes being dried. Again square, glass windows. Doorway with curtain tied in knot. Blue windows on upper floor. Another orange wall. Corner pillar - orange colour - top against ceiling has ornate design.
(00:15:20) Two stonework opening. Small pavilion with roof like satellite upside down standing on four uprights. Pile of garbage of dead branches and leaves. Brick wall peeling.
(00:15:47) Inside a kitchen - half cabinet with stuff on its top, chair full of stuff, pot on floor. Outside in courtyard - kitchen utensils packed in pots and container. Frying pan hanging on wall. Lots of stuff strewn on ground.
(00:16:12) Outside gedung - section with orange wall - with light blue windows on upper floor. Front section with porch - two stone seats on each side of porch. Flower pot stands on either side. Ceiling of porch - wood planks. In corner, pillar slimy with algae.
(00:16:38)  Inside room - two round mirrors with oval shape photograph of man head put up on wall. Two old fashion black chairs, black wood table with white cloth. Several packed boxes next to table. Another adjacent room - few chair and table.
(00:16:52) Three persons - lady in red top holding notebook (likely NHB staff), one man transport company - Joy - boss. Two transport workers, One man, also like official. Tagging - one cupboard, half circle table with marble top. Lots of stuff stacked up, including crockery. Nenek walking round, talking to man in red songkok.
(00:19:39) NHB moving more antique furniture: one black wardrobe made up of three detachable parts - 'head' section, main section with mirror one side of door, two drawer bottom section. Transport people clearing cupboard full of stuff and thick layer of dust on top section. Tie doors of wardrobe. Various sections carried separately down staircase to front porch. Old cash register. Another old cupboard. Ornate side table with marble top and three tiers small drawers. Old style wood bed's head rest. Wood seat with five carved uprights for the back. Two kopitiam type chairs, two seats with curved arm rest. Sideboard table.
(00:31:08) Man writing in note book, including address and contact number. NHB staff in red top going through items to move with man.
(00:32:35) Furniture on porch loaded on to lorry. Nenek appears, looking round furnitue, claim some items are personal, talking to lady.
(00:338:43) Man in red songkok going through list of items with NHB staff, signing document with NHB staff. Lady staff in red top explaining.
(00:40:21) Two lorries driving off. Two eagles perched on pillars on either side of gate.