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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221617-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1936
Country: China
Location: Nanking
TC Begins: 20:41:46
TC Ends: 20:47:12
Duration: 00:05:26
Nanking - Views From The Ming Tombs 20:41:50 Pan from hill above city. 20:41:54 Title: “Street Scenes.” Men pulling rickshaws, carts of fabric; leading burros w/ wood, etc. Bicycles, pedestrians. 20:42:38 Title: “Tomb of Sun Yat Sen”. LS, plaza, tourists. “Tomb of Yuan Shih-Kai, First President of the Chinese Republic.” Tall Chinese tower on hilltop beyond elaborate traditional building w/ people coming & going. Street scenes w/ mules, wagons. 20:43:28 Title: “From the train - Nanking to Tainfu.” View past stone walls w/ Chinese characters written on bricks or stones. View past wagon w/ bundles along farm fields. 20:43:45 Market stalls on railroad platform, vendors & buyers. 20:43:52 Title: “Anna May Wong & Friends.” Walking w/ two women friends on railroad platform. 20:44:10 Title: ”Anna May’s send-off by the army Taianfu - 6 a.m. “ Line of soldiers posing for camera.2 20:44:20 Title: “Off for Tai Shan. Anna May Wong, The Freddie Merrills, Priscilla, The Cranes. Anna May talking w/ others; all walking away from camra on dirt / gravel road. Chinese carrying people on litters w/ elaborate gate behind. 20:44:42 Title: “Starting the Climb - 5600 steps, 6000 feet up, and a 15 mile round trip.” 20:44:48 Up steps from various angles, along stone path. 20:45:07 Title: “Taoist Temple At The Top. Men past old stone temple; monk beside fire in kettle. Group resting on stone wall. Men buying tofu (?) from man w/ baskets. View of trail w/ many people on opposite canyon hillside. Anna May Wong & party eating & resting on rocks. 20:45:50 Temple on top of hill. Pan across temple entrance; more temple building behind. Monk cooking on street; man walking down stone path. Men fighting or teasing cripple. 20:46:19 Title: “Down At A Dog Trot.” 20:46:21 People hurridly carried in litters out of tunnel under building. 20:46:57 Title: “Bound Feet”. MS two Chinese women hobbling on small bound feet & walking w/ pole. Travelogue; Home Movies; Pre-Japanese Invasion; Pre-Jap-Sino War; Chinese-American Actress; Hollywood Actress; Asian; NOTE: Anna May Wong spent a year touring China, visiting her ancestral village & learning its culture after being turned down by MGM for starring role in The Good Earth.