Home Movie: Dr. P. Hoogerhyde Collection: 098650 (silent)

Description: At the time of this filming, Hong Kong was a British colony and nearby Macau was a Portuguese colony. In this reel an American couple travel to southeast Asia in 1957, with visits to Hong Kong including Lantau Island and possibly the nearby territory of Macau, before proceeding to Thailand. With pineapple harvest and rice farming in Thailand. Sequences in this reel are focused on people and ordinary landscapes with just a few landmarks to help viewers understand the geography of the trip. With high angle views of Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong featuring many types of boats, and a cryptic canoe adventure to the interior. With a male gaze on women in Hong Kong.

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Subjects: 1950s, Tourism, Leisure and recreation, Agriculture, Boats and boating, Colonialism, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent

Tags: image extends between perforations; flower gardens; Union Jack flag waving; British Hong Kong; children playing on lawn; Haw Par Mansion; bustling markets; panoramic views; harbors; Victoria Harbour; boats; junks; straw hats; laundry; clotheslines; sails; filmed from a boat; woman holding crustacean over boat railing; lobsters; big fish; nets; Hong Kong street scenes; Hong Kong islands; Lantau Island; male gaze on women of Hong Kong; Wat Arun; terraced hillside; nighttime boating; plowing; pot-bellied pigs; palm trees; pineapple harvest; agricultural workers; agricultural labor; rice farming; rivers; canoes; paddling; filmed from a boat; under-exposed; rapids; waterfalls; sunglasses; Oriental Hotel; threshing wheat; harvest; touristic gaze; loading pineapples into van; canoe ride into the interior;

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Creator: Hoogerhyde Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Dr. P. Hoogerhyde Collection PC-0051, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1957

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Geographical Location: Hong Kong; Thailand

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 191