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100 YEARS OF MALAYSIAN CINEMA AT MUZIUM NEGARA: NARROW IN SCOPE BUT FULL OF CURIOS AND NOT MUCH FACTS!

By Mansor bin Puteh     I am probably the only person in the film industry of Malaysia today who is not related to anyone whose parents were involved in the industry to have paid a visit to the Shaw Brothers' Malay Film Productions Studios at 8 Jalan Ampas in Singapore.   This happened in 1963 when my mother took me and my younger brother, on her jaunt to the city with many in the group of visitors from Melaka to visit our relatives who were living there and making tours to interesting places in the city.   I also watched television for the first time when I was there.   But the experience of visiting the Malay Film Productions Studios became the highlight of my trip to Singapore when we were allowed to enter the studios where they were filming a scene in a cabaret with P. Ramlee and the other actors all of who I had never seen in films since I had not yet then been to the cinemas.   The lead actor in the scene was Saloma and she was the last to appear on the

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