Home Movie: 003425 (silent)

Description: Documentation from the SS Lurline's "81 day cruise from California to Hawaii, the South Pacific, East Asia and back to California". hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p9539coll1/id/17996/

(accessed 5/31/2024)

Features scenes in China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, filmed with a white touristic gaze.

Can marked by RP at an earlier time: "LURLINE - SOUTH PACIFIC / Jan. -Apr. 1934 / Reel II"

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Subjects: 1930s, Tourism, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Shipping

Tags: Asia; Travel; barges; river; Batavia Adam Poort street cars; Dutch East Indies; washing clothes in river; street scenes; ox-drawn carriage; Hotel Des Noes; police or traffic officers dressed in white; cemeteries; gravestones; Kek Lok Si temple; turtle pond; turtles; cobras; man handling cobra; snake farm; monkeys playing; primates; Malaysian traditional dance; Hong Kong ferry; Junk ships; markets; vendors; ports; rickshaws; Tangshan train station; SS Lurline South Seas and Oriental Cruise; deer; pagodas; rough seas; waves; horses; electric railway; bathing in river; bicycles; thatched roofs; water buffalo; carts; parasols; piers; smokestacks; herd of pigs walked on city streets; farm animals; domesticated animals; nests; railroad stations; bare trees; filmed from boat; ocean waves; snow; large Buddha statue; waterfalls; cliffs; Kotoku-in; giant Buddha

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1933

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Geographical Location: Japan; China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Hong Kong; Kamakura, Japan; Asia

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 408