("Love of the Wanderer"), "Saputangan" ("Handkerchief"), "Pulau Bali" ("The Island of Bali"), and "Saputangan Tanda Kasih" ("Handkerchief, Sign of Love"). Release and reception A novelisation of Saputangan was published by Gapura in 1949; the publishing house, owned by Andjar Asmara, had novelised all Indonesian films produced or in production since independence up to that point. The film was in theatres by February 1950, when it was screening in Jakarta. The film was exported to Singapore, where it was banned by the film censor Jack Evans in May 1950 for being "not up to standards"; J. B. Kristanto, in his Katalog Film Indonesia (Indonesian Film Catalogue), suggests that the issue was Communism-inspired dialogue. This ban was lifted on 1 June 1950, and Saputangan was soon screened to popular success at the Alhambra Theatre. The reviewer for the Sunday Courier received Saputangan warmly, writing that the film was "unlike any other" and was the first Indonesian film to not feature any fighting. Saputangan may now be lost. Movies were then shot on flammable nitrate film, and after a fire destroyed much of Produksi Film Negara's warehouse in 1952, old films shot on nitrate were deliberately destroyed. The American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider writes that all Indonesian films from before 1950 are lost. However, Kristanto records several as having survived at Sinematek Indonesia's archives, and Biran writes that several Japanese propaganda films have survived at the Netherlands Government Information Service. Explanatory notes References Works cited Indonesian black-and-white films Dutch East Indies films Lost Indonesian films Indonesian romance films 1940s romance films Lost romance films 1940s lost films