Gula Java DVDs

Normally we are unable to supply our DVDs between October and the middle of March.

If you are interested in ordering at that time please email the address below to check availability.

In 2004, I released a CD-ROM Gula Java covering the workings of the historic sugar mills of Java. It is essential to the full enjoyment of the DVDs. (Click here for more information or click this link for the online version.) 

Between 2004 and 2006, we (Rob and Yuehong Dickinson) made several extended journeys to Java to film these mills at work, particularly their stationary steam engines. One mill (Olean) is so special that we have dedicated a single general interest DVD to it - click here for information about "Sweet Spot". 

We have now prepared a 10 DVD set containing over 8 hours of viewing which are intended for the specialist enthusiast and to make them affordable we will burn them on our own computers and mail them in a 'no frills' package, but that doesn't mean that the quality of the video represented is any lower than our normal high standards. Covering nearly 30 sugar mills and hundreds of stationary engines together with associated equipment it is a unique record of operations which would have been almost totally familiar to cane sugar technologists 70 years ago. Necessarily some mills have a higher proportion of traditional equipment and this is reflected in the varying length of record for each mill varying from a couple of minutes to almost a full hour for Gondang Baru (above). A preview version was described as 'stunning' by the Chairman of the International  Stationary Steam Engine Society.

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We have prepared 6 sample clips (reduced size 320 x 240, wmv format) which you can download:

	Gula Java 1 (Mill engine and its mill) also available YouTube Version
	Gula Java 2 (Variety of mill engines) also available YouTube Version
	Gula Java 3 (One sugar mill) also available YouTube Version
	Gula Java 4 (Vacuum Pumps) also available YouTube Version
	Gula Java 5 (Other Pumps) also available YouTube Version
	Gula Java 6 (Belt Engines) also available YouTube Version

See also:

• Logging Off - the last year of the Weihe Forestry Railway

• Sweet Spot - the story of Olean Sugar Mill in Java

• Shibanxi Heaven - the last real steam narrow gauge passenger train in the world (2004 - 2007)

• Shibanxi Gold - the last real steam narrow gauge passenger train in the world (2008 - 2011)

• Battlefield Heroes - Henan's 21st century narrow gauge steam survivors

• Coal in the Hills - the Huanan Coal Railway in China's Heilongjiang Province

• Black Diamond Express - Tipong Colliery, India's last real steam narrow gauge railway

• Funiculi Funicula - the historic Penang Hill Railway in the last few weeks before closure for rebuilding

• Temples of Steam DVDs - steam powered rice mills in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand

• Dakhondaing - a Burmese Village and its Rice Mill