Home Movie: 010270 (silent)

Description: A group of white missionaries visits China and Southeast Asia in the 1920s, featuring an army of foot soldiers marching up the steps of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum, visits with nurses and possibly orphanages, and scenes of the Great Wall of China.

note on container: "Ceylon, India, Burma."
Bottom of can: "# 3"

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

Tags: rowing; sailing; boats; junks in harbor; local people; pig and piglets; nurses; orphanages; newborn babies; staring at camera; white missionaries; armies; uniformed men and boys; young soldiers; monks; Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum; goats; villages; costumes; Great Wall of China; camels; rickshaws; dog on leash; architecture; Military Official of Ming Tombs; marble sculptures; funeral procession?; temples

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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: 1929

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Geographical Location: Ceylon; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; Burma; China; Nanjing, China; Beijing, China

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 400