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

Reel Number: 221603-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1930s

Country: Burma,Myanmar (Burma),Thailand

Location: Rangoon

TC Begins: 15:25:26

TC Ends: 15:33:19

Duration: 00:07:53

1930s - USS Marblehead in Oriental Ports & Initiation At Sea, Captain Bartlett Pt. 2 of 2 COLOR. Continued... Island peak in silhouette from water. Daytime & pan over other islands. 15:26:-00 Street & rickshaws, sign: Siam Stationary. Buddhist temple complex. Large statues of warriors & pan across decorations. Statue of oxen. 15:27:21 Boy & man bathing in bucket in temple yard. Approach to old temple ruins w/ row of statues. Tourists on steps. Monks in saffron orange robes posing for tourists beneath large ruins w/ sculpture above. Tourist poses by enormous tree roots. Other jungle foliage & people posing by long line of elephant statues on wall. Buddhist Gods in row. 15:29:10 Man pedaling four people in back of pedal rickshaw. Views of tourists & natives around ruins. 15:29:50 Light on golden statue. Monks in hallway. Dark interior w/ windows. 15:30:10 Ruins. Native boys down steps of old temple & standing in yard. Monks pose. Women & children walk past. 15:30:55 Military men visiting large house on posts. Int. feeding elephants (seen in silhouette). 15:31:16 Men outdoors w/ cobra; picking up & milking. Cobras in writhing mass. Pens w/ signs: King Cobra, Cobra. 15:31:57 View from side of USS Marblehead w/ amphibious plane as ship turns in river (?). 15:32:11 Captain & King Neptune w/ others in costumes as devils, graduates. Men shaving & tarring officer before dunking. Home Movies; Military; Navy; Pacific; Southeast Asia; Equator Ceremony; Shellbacks; Traditions; Religion; Ceremonies;

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