ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the age of seven.

No main title. "It was strictly for purposes of scientific study that we went to Borneo, armed barely enough for personal protection, in the land of head hunters and poison darts".

A map. Monkeys. Sloth bear crawling along a branch. White elephants in the jungle ("It would have been easy to kill several elephants, but we wanted one alive. The Sultan's men showed us how to prepare a pitfall'. Trap prepared. Native herd driver driving the elephant towards the trap. Elephant in the pit trying to escape (113ft).

"After many more days of travel we reached the well-concealed retreat where the Pygmies hide from their enemies". "Chief Pa-la-Koop was a bit doubtful at first". Gifts of beads, cigarettes and trinkets are offered. "The tallest member of the tribe was only five-foot-six, the height of a ten-year-old white child". "As everyone smokes in Borneo, a natural tobacco pouch is made in the earlobe."

Native woman with bundles of tobaccco pushed through her earlobe. "Little boys and girls start smoking at seven years of age. Perhaps that is why they never grow up". Children smoking. The expedition leaves with parting gifts of material and they sail off down the river. "The End" (190ft). [16mm].