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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220873-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1938
Country: China,Hong Kong
Location: Canton,Hong Kong
TC Begins: 05:13:55
TC Ends: 05:27:03
Duration: 00:13:08
Hong Kong and Canton, ca 1938 Laborer chain-gang breaking stones on roadsid; marched down street in chains. Wide avenue w/ young girls & other pedestrians. Chinese man begging from Europeans, one in white Navy white uniform. Street scene. Thatched mud houses in village scene - market (?) w/ people eating outdoors, sailors thru. GOOD CUs. 05:15:41 Small sailing boats, barges along river; unloading crate w/ hand cranked winch. 05:15:59 Downtown Canton street scenes showing shops & stalls. Children. Girl on pavement picks lice from little sister. LS up crowded street. European or American man in street, talking to various shop-owners. Old men smoking. Girl chopping kindling wood. American sailor w/ camera in crowd of Chinese. European man posing w/ Indian (?) soldier, sitting bartering w/ stall owner. People on foot, sedan chair w/ porters. People carry or pull their wares thru street. European or American man carried sedan chair. (good) 05:19:32 Pan of Hong Kong Harbor ; view from top. POV from tram down hills above HK. People in sedan chairs past; women shopping & street scene. Western woman & daughter in garden of luxury hotel. Pan from hotel (?) to bay. Harbour & ships; rowboats & paddlewheel steam boats. Rowing large boats. 05:22:52 Chinese? VIPs meet w/ American or British Admiral & other VIPs on shipboard. US sailors & marines. 05:23:21 Sailing vessels & Chinese junks & barges - life on river. Moving shot along river showing shoreline & various types of bamboo covered boats. Fishing; view past many moored boats. (good) Home movies; Military; Ethnic Asians; 1930s; Pre-WWII;