Home Movie: 001100 (silent)

Description: Upper-class white passengers cruising the world on the S.S. Franconia in 1928 stop to tour Japan. Includes a crowd of locals welcoming the passengers with American, British, and Japanese flags; handfeeding deer at Nara, the Great Buddha statue at Kamakura, and more.

notes on container:
"61026-2 Dupe / JAPAN GOOD / wet 3/12/75 / repaired 3/12/75 / 3/15/84"

note inside can:
"Beppu Japan
Naru Japan
Kyoto Japan
Kamakura Japan
Myanoshito Japan Excellent
Fujiyama Japan"

More information on the S.S. Franconia: www.chriscunard.com/history-fleet/cunard-fleet/1900-1930/franconia/ (accessed 1/14/2025)


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Subjects: 1920s, Tourism, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Religion, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture

Tags: homemade titles; world maps; furs; Japanese children waving American flags; waving national flags; welcoming travelers; kimonos; street scenes; white woman soliciting Japanese people to pose for camera; hand feeding deer; posing at cemetery; shrines; temples; rickshaws; "Tsurumi Jigoku — "Crane Seeing Hell" This Has Been Excavated by Human Hands. 350 ft. in Depth" sign; geothermal site; domesticated deer; fishing; turkeys; school children; Kotoku-in; The Great Buddha of Kamakura; giant Buddha statue; Buddhism; waterfalls; creeks; Koi fish; snow ball fight; snowing; Mount Fuji; Fujisan; snowcapped mountains; S.S. Franconia; world cruises

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0346, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1928-03-06

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Geographical Location: Japan; Nara, Japan; Kamakura, Japan; Miyanoshita, Japan; Beppu, Japan; Kyoto, Japan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 499