Part 1, by Sergeant Clark: Gent steps down from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and is greeted. He talks with the assembled people on at the airstrip. At the headquarters of Malaya Command gunners of 114th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, prepare to fire a 17-gun salute. View from behind the gun. Saluting base decorated with a large Union flag. Gent, in full Governor's regalia with feathered hat, takes his position on the base with Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy, head of Malaya Command. Gent at the salute. Inspecting the gunners of 114th Field Regiment. Looking down a road as the pipe band of the (probably 1st Battalion) Royal Scots passes the camera on both sides; a throng of excited children follows. Pipe band at the head of the march past. A unit of the Malay Regiment halts. On parade; Union flags hang in the background. Gent and Messervy on saluting base. He inspects the Malay Regiment. Spectators. The band leads the Malay Regiment through the city.

Part 2, by Sergeant Gordon: Gent steps down from his aircraft and is introduced to Messervy. Gent poses for pictures and photographers dash about. High shot looking down on 25-pounder guns as they fire the salute. Guard of honour provided by the (probably 1st Battalion) Bihar Regiment. Motorcade approaching. Escorting Humber armoured cars passing. Gent on saluting base. He inspects the Bihar Regiment. Gent's party drives off followed by motorcycle outriders. At Air Headquarters a jeep marked 'Provost' and 'Escort to his Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief Malayan Union' pass camera leading the motorcade, which includes armoured cars, British and Indian military police motorcyclists and Gent's limousine.

Film coverage by two cameramen showing the arrival of Sir Edward Gent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, on the eve of the creation of the Malayan Union.

Notes

This ceremony fell on the last day of the British Military Administration Malaya's responsibility for running Malaya. The next day, 1 April 1946, the Malayan Union came into existence with Gent as Governor and answering to the Colonial Office. The Union did away with the previous system of Straits Settlements, and Federated and Unfederated Malay States, and placed British Malaya under a uniform administration. It drastically reduced the power and influence of previous elites. The Union proved deeply unpopular and was replaced with the Federation of Malaya in January 1948.