Pre-WWII - 1939, Japan: Documentary, A Living Travel Book R5 of 5

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pre-WWII - 1939, Japan: Poetic Travelogue Two young Japanese playing three legged race down country lane & on mountain path. Mountain countryside - dump truck arrives & children jump in. Girl punting / poling small boat; sail boats along coast w/ rocky pebbles; young boys pull in fishing boat onto beach; exercising on bar - gymnastics on beach. 03:13:20 School - outdoors class. Interior classroom; children learning Japanese calligraphy. Another class, girls listening thru radio headphones - old lady wearing headphones. Kids swimming in river. 03:14:17 High angle / HA older children arriving at school stop in front of building & tip hats paying respects to ?. Top shot mass of children assembled at city school. 03:14:46 Sewing classes. Young girls learn Tea Ceremony; mathematics class, students use abacus. Swimming class, young boys running to pool. Children marching in pairs over camera 03:15:58 Montage: Industry - factory yard w/ workers assembled & doing calisthenics. Whistle blowing, workers run to work. Smoking tall chimneys; interior textile factory - silk (?) - material off rollers. HA toy factory & small airplanes, three women testing clockwork / windup planes. Plane overhead. Ship in water. 03:16:36 Interior steel foundry - molten metal; exterior shipyard - ship under construction. Hull of ship Chichibu Maru - ship launched, down slipway. Liner leaving port filled w/ passengers. 03:17:36 Sports montage: Large unid. college / university (?) building; sport activities - young men put racing row shell in river. HA boats race. CU rugby ball & rugby match / game in progress. Interior martial arts demonstration - Karate (?). Baseball batting practice, team maches onto field - band playing; game played in front of large filled covered stadium grandstands. 03:18:51 Pan Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel. 03;19:03 HA Crowded beach scenes; CU children; beach umbrellas. 03:19:15 HA Street scenes, banners hang from buildings & streets crowded w/ pedestrians. Group of women in kimonos queue for cinema / movie theater ticket booth. Clip from Japanese feature film - fighting, Kendo. 03:19:31 Montage: Geisha dancing; chorus girls in stage show or nightclub / theater dancing. 03:19:58 Montage: Martial Arts - Kendo class - mock battle; mass stadium calisthenics; Japanese flag, skiing & ice skating; woman throwing discus; diving & swimming; track & field athletics; horse jumping; high jump; broad / long jump. 03:20:57 Kendo battle on rocky sea coast, Mount Fuji in background. Mount Fuji with ocean liner / ship passing in front. Rough seas pounding on rocky coastline. Book cover closing over pictures. Pre-WW2; Poetic / Lyrical 1930s Travelogue; Nationalism; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Head crease in NARA source tape 03:12:11 - 03:12:14. Intermittent sound. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk