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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221161-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1948
Country: Japan
Location: Tokyo
TC Begins: 00:12:38
TC Ends: 00:20:12
Duration: 00:07:34
Post-WWII - 1948, Occupied Japan, Helen Keller Visits Tokyo and Yokohama People waiting & going into Tokyo Bowl Military Theatre. 00:13:03 MP escort on motorcycle & car arriving; blind Helen Keller & Miss Thompson out of car, escorted by US Military police into outdoor bowl theatre (sign) & very large stage. 00:13:48 Japanese speakers addressing audience. Audience listening & fanning themselves. Keller & Thompson stand at table w/ Japanese translator as Keller speaks. People mill about on stage after lecture - American cameraman - nice close shots as party leave, shake hands with audience. 00:16:17 Group of young Japanese women hold poster of Miss Keller. People buying tickets? People enter giving tickets. Little girls holding posters in Japanese. Miss Keller & Miss Thompson w/ MPs walking into stadium past crowds. Sitting at side of stage waiting their turn to go on. Shots of audience including Japanese children, GIs, others. 00:18:29 Miss Keller feeling lips of Miss Thompson & Japanese translator as they speak. Still cameraman; gift of Japanese lacquerware box presented to Miss Keller. Good CU of Keller. General shots as they leave. Post-WW2; Japanese Occupation; Occupied Japan; Handicapped; Deaf; Dumb; Blind; 1940s Celebrity;