He runs one of the last remaining film photo shops in Singapore — for over 40 years | Timeless - video Dailymotion

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For over 40 years, Wang Sifa has kept the heart of film photography alive at Whampoa Colour Centre, one of the last remaining film photo printing shops in Singapore. From the golden age of colour prints to the digital shift—and now a youth-led film revival—he’s seen it all. Despite challenges such as rising rents, long hours, and dwindling manpower, his love for the craft—and his customers who adoringly call him "Uncle"—keeps him going. A quiet fighter for a fading trade, he proves that his passion develops best in the dark.   Watch more: https://www.asiaone.com/video

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00:00What are you doing with your work?

00:03I'm not working.

00:05I'm not working.

00:06In the industry, I can say that I'm very familiar with.

00:13So, if I'm less than reading, I'm very familiar with the film.

00:20When the customer is very uncomfortable,

00:23I have to ask you something.

00:25If you want to answer your questions,

00:27if you're happy, you're okay.

00:29If you don't like it, we can do it for him.

00:33I like my customers.

00:44My name is Wang Sifat.

00:46I'm doing photography.

00:47At first, I was doing photography.

00:50I've been doing photography for about five or six years.

00:54After that, I was able to do photography.

00:57I met four years.

01:02When the stock was on, it was a lot of fire.

01:04The number of the stock was on the phone.

01:08It was a lot of people who were able to get the money.

01:14And they were able to get the money through it.

01:18Until the 90th century, the stock was out.

01:21The money was slowly falling down.

01:23In the past, I was using the black one in the black one.

01:30There was a black one in the black one.

01:35Until the 70s, it was painted.

01:40The painted with the stuff I made.

01:43I was busy in 1985 and 1990.

01:48That was so busy.

01:50Every person to go to travel,

01:52they don't want to go to travel.

01:53In the 90s,

01:56the number of pages

01:58slowly disappeared.

02:00Every person uses the number of pages

02:02when you use the number of pages.

02:04When you use the number of pages,

02:06when you use the number of pages,

02:08you can use the number of pages.

02:10It's about 600 to 700 pages.

02:13Now it's about 100 pages.

02:17It's about 500 pages.

02:19That's pretty much Ella.

02:21We haven't stayed that bad ever.

02:23But it's about 400 pages and only

02:27the number of pages are different.

02:29Right now it's all fake.

02:32To print out and for kannst JOI

02:35they fully need to fill their pages.

02:37Websedinges acknowledgezo им

02:40a pulse.

02:41Everybody wants to use a computer

02:43so that COVID has started,

02:46At the beginning, every country is not able to go to the country.

02:51They're not able to go to the country in the country.

02:54It's the kind of thing that's the kind of thing.

02:58Now, the customers are all the way to the job.

03:03It's all the young people,

03:0615 to 40 years old in the young people who play the job.

03:11I'm going to work on the other day.

03:14I'm going to work on 7 o'clock.

03:17They're not late.

03:18I'm not working on the other day.

03:21They're going to go to work.

03:23They can go to me.

03:27I'm going to work on 8 o'clock.

03:30I'm going to go to 10 o'clock.

03:32I'm going to do some repair equipment.

03:37From the water and water or air to the motor burner,

03:42and when it's about 11 o'clock,

03:45I will go to the institutes and I'll open the doors.

03:48On the night,

03:50I need to do the work until it's done,

03:53and I'm gonna go back home,

03:55but it's not always.

03:56So I will go to 7 o'clock.

03:59I will do the care this morning.

04:02I will send all the workers to the office,

04:07I can go home.

04:09Before, I didn't have so many people.

04:12I had to do it until 3 o'clock.

04:16Now I have a lot of jobs.

04:19I can do it sooner.

04:21At 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock,

04:23I can go home home.

04:25I will come back tomorrow.

04:30I'm not working.

04:37I have to go home with some other people.

04:43See, I have a lot of jobs to take part of the business.

04:48I'm not working.

04:49In this country,

04:51I have to go home home.

04:53Now, I have rent as a big amount of bills.

04:57Long-time jobs isn't the same.

05:00I'm not getting rich people.

05:02It's less expensive.

05:03In 2018, 2019,

05:05I still do some work in the outside.

05:11I do a lot of work in the area.

05:15Some of them, I do a lot of work in the area.

05:19Some of them, I do a lot of work in the area.

05:22I can support them now.

05:24Because I don't have to go to the outside.

05:27I don't have to go to the outside.

05:29I don't have to ask them.

05:31I can do it.

05:33As I do, I don't have to do it.

05:35I can do it now.

05:37I've got a lot of equipment.

05:41I don't have to do it.

05:45I can do it.

05:47I can't do it.

05:49I don't have to do it.

05:51I can do it now.

05:53I don't have to give it a lot of work.

05:55I am not good at it.

05:57I can do it.

05:59I can do it.

06:01My business is that I buy cheap things.

06:04Every person likes it, every person can film it.

06:07The service needs to be quick for people.

06:09Now, the business is going to be done.

06:11Now, the business is very fast.

06:14Every business is very fast.

06:16But the business is very expensive.

06:19So, my business is very cheap.

06:23No way.

06:24I can't go to the business.

06:26So, I have to pay for the business.

06:29I have to pay for the business.

06:32I have to pay for the business.

06:35The business is not a very cheap.

06:38If you want to pay for the business, pay for the money.

06:41I do not have a business.

06:43So, the business is a little more expensive.

06:48The business is not so high.

06:51So, the business is not so high.

06:54It's not a business.

06:56I like the most of my customers.

07:01Why?

07:03You just want to write a picture?

07:05Yes.

07:06Let's see.

07:07Let's see.

07:08Now, young people play with the digital computer.

07:10They play with digital computer.

07:12They play with digital computer.

07:14They want to challenge the digital computer.

07:17The digital computer is not easy.

07:19It's a different kind of thing.

07:22Because young people are learning the business.

07:25Those bulbs will be able to make shots,

07:27when they're ready.

07:28This right, it's in the world.

07:30They play with what the important Mushroom in app.

07:32If all theirör chops are allowed to know,

07:33they're ready for business Rumor,

07:35that uses

07:35when using cell phones.

07:37That's the first row.

07:38stayed in the world's house而且

07:40in their space.

07:41There's no one'sような audience.

07:42We don't want to manage it.

07:43So they can make the light because they don't have one right.

07:44Hopefully De diagonale is about to teach the digital,

07:45its high light,

07:46what do people do,

07:47it doesn't recognize what they do.

07:48It'll obviously be able to work on next.

07:49It'll kill everything.

07:50There will kill everything.

07:51Sometimes the lighting is not the same as the light.

07:56Now the young people, the phone number, the phone number,

08:01is very powerful.

08:03The keyboard is more traditional,

08:08but it is not very familiar.

08:11We need to learn slowly.

08:13We need to see what things are going to do.

08:17There are people who are in the room,

08:19The camera doesn't have the light, but it's so dark.

08:22The camera doesn't have the light, but the camera doesn't have the light.

08:26The camera doesn't have the light, but it's not the same.

08:30The traditional camera is, when they're shooting,

08:34the camera doesn't have the light.

08:39It's just to make it with their experience,

08:42how to make a beautiful照片.

08:45It's like if you're using a number of figures,

08:49you can't see it all together.

08:53You can see it all together.

08:55You can see it all together.

09:00So, it's completely different.

09:03Now, I'm going to shoot some pictures.

09:06I'm going to shoot some pictures.

09:10I'm going to shoot some pictures.

09:14Then, when I'mazaq-i, I'm a person,

09:17when I'm thinking of Instagram and kalian.

09:19They're quite slim to them.

09:21When we look at video games,

09:24the correct kind of things are really Alexis.

09:26We don't have to be the exact couple.

09:27I'm seeing one of thein are page泉 here at the top.

09:29I'm seeing what's happening with this picture,

09:32and I'm going to be able to make this look for some pictures.

09:35So that's what I'm doing.

09:37I also can share some sales of this video.

09:44If you look at the best, we need to see the business.

09:48I don't use the best sales channel.

09:51Just look at their measurements.

09:53If you look at a good photo,

09:55You don't have a great photo.

09:58Get ready to go to the general.

10:01My uncle has been doing it for 40 years.

10:05If I look at how long can I do it,

10:08I think it would be no problem.

10:11I have a little bit of time to go out and do things.

10:16My children don't want to do this business.

10:19They've been doing it a lot,

10:21but now the young people don't want to do it for a long time.

10:24The short time will be better.

10:26I'll wait for the time to do it.

10:31Now, there are people who have retired in the house.

10:38They don't have to do things.

10:41They're in a coffee shop.

10:42They're in a coffee shop.

10:44They're in a coffee shop.

10:45They're in a coffee shop.

10:46They're in a coffee shop.

10:48They're in a coffee shop.

10:50So I don't have to do these things.

10:52What are you doing here?

10:53I have to do this business.

10:55I can talk to the customer.

10:57There are some people who don't know what to do.

11:00I can ask them for something they can ask me.

11:02I can call him for a long time.

11:07The rest of my young children playing at the jazz country,

11:08my life will be better.

11:11And I can call my uncle.

11:13I'm here to my uncle.

11:14I'm here to the group.

11:15I'm here to my uncle.

11:16You can call my uncle.

11:19I'm here to tell my uncle.

11:21They can take me out into the house,

11:22and try to show me up and get me up again.

11:24I'm so happy.

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