Marvel, a Jakarta Boy
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.8.1
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content: Penn State educational films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 605 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film by Film Australia follows a teenage boy from a migrant Minangkabu family seeking a new way of life in the busy city of Jakarta, Java (Indonesia). His Islamic family survives in part through cloth trading and through the boy's selling of ricecakes outside a tourist hotel.

Legacy Keywords: Acculturation urban Indonesia ; Markets Java ; Migration Java ; Vendors street vendors Java

Credits: Morris, John ; Gow, Keith