Pantjawarna (Perfected Spelling: Pancawarna; Indonesian for Five Colours) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
[3] Njoo had worked for the company since 1940, when he and his wife Fifi Young were signed to produce Kris Mataram.
[3] It starred Young, Mochtar Widjaja, Dhalia, Idris Martha, Omar Rodriga, S Poniman, Siti Aminah, Iyem Cilacap, and Soerip.
[5] This film featured Dhalia and Soerip in starring roles, as orphaned sisters who tried to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia (now Jakarta), and also featured Poniman and Mochtar Widjaja;[7] Only the last of these left the film industry following Oriental's demise; Dhalia, Soerip, and Poniman remained active for several decades.
[9] As such, American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider suggests that all Indonesian films from before 1950 are lost.