A fact from Njai Dasima (1932 film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Njai Dasima, the first talkie produced by Tan's Film, was based on the same novel as their first production three years earlier?
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Njai in this case is an honorific, and Dasima is a personal name (she's referred to as "Njai Dasima" several times in the book... in English we wouldn't say "the Concubine Dasima"). No translation. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
"...Effendi worked with a shooting script and scenario" Perhaps a wikilink for scenario? i don't know what does it mean in the context of pre-production or production of a film.
One newspaper editorial, noting that the pamphlets described the film... Needs the time (year) of this editorial. The preceding sentence discussed a review from 1950. So, this sentence is also related to a 1950s review? Or, was this more contemporary to the film?--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:45, 11 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
1( There was no "Indonesia" at the time (even though the nationalist movement was growing), so the film couldn't have been "Indonesian", and 2) Films such as this were mostly in vernacular Malay, which differs from standard Indonesian (in the Malay language family) / "court Malay" in several aspects; of particular note is that vernacular Malay was the de facto lingua franca of trade and the language of inter-ethnic communication used among the lower-class and less educated (and therefore had a wider speaking base) than court Malay / what was to be come Indonesian, which was spoken by those with Dutch educations or of noble Sumatran descent. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
