1930s - USS Marblehead in Oriental Ports & Iniation At Sea, Captain Bartlett Pt. 1 of 2

1930s - USS Marblehead in Oriental Ports & Initiation At Sea, Captain Bartlett Pt. 1 of 2 COLOR. POV past US flag on stern to navy ship; large Chinese junk near small freighter. 15:12:10 Singapore (?) traffic police wearing direction board, rickshaws, trucks, bicycles, cars, oxen carts. 15:12:22 Men down steps of large building w/ square columns. Street scene; ox cart; man w/ movie camera & tourists. Temple & gardens, tourists in large open sedan. Men w/ shoulder poles & goods up stairs. 15:13:10 Hundreds (?) of turtles in pond. Ornate Saigon temple details & stone carvings. 15:13:34 Men in white, tourists, on hill above city & Saigon harbor w/ heavy shipping seen from naval ship past junks or sampans. Smoke from fire on dock. 15:14:44 Street w/ traffic, pedestrians, Buddhist temple at end. Large building - Reserve Bank of India. Oxen & carts. Indians past very ornate large colonial building w/ buses, rickshaws & pedestrians past. 15:15:28 Sampans from water at morning or evening light; steps into water. 15:15:44 American man posing in front of large temple complex; another view. 15:16:08 Racetrack from grandstand; horses running r to l. Well dressed oriental & Europeans. 15:16:37 Sampans in harbor w/ part of navy ship visible. Pan w/ harbor activity; men rowing boats, freighters docked. 15:17:39 Street magician, fakir, w/ crowd watching. 15:18:05 USS Marblehead (CL-12) & shellback initiation for equator crossing. Men splashing & fighting on deck; others costumed in various military dress, some looking thru binoculars. Man in Uncle Sam costume, others faces painted. Men lined up for intitiation, tarred or greased, dumped into pool; pummeled. Naked men, dancing, swatted. Continued... Home Movies; Military; Navy; Pacific; Asia; Traditions; Ceremonies; Ceremony; Southeast Asia;