Home Movie: Trawick Collection: 001097 (silent)

Description: A 1920s cruise with long stops in Thailand, China, Hong Kong, and Japan, with street scenes, merchants, civic festivals, national festivals, and a dramatic display of a mythological Oni character. Notable for sequences in which members of the public pursue their everyday lives before the textures of life changed in the 20th century. European and presumably Euro-American tourists express their enthusiasm around the ship, and through exaggerated descriptive language stated in intertitles. Shown are forms of labor that mostly became extinct with motor cars including people hauling heavy loads by hand, and colonial-era sedan chairs carrying tourists supported by the labor of locals.


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

Tags: pith helmets; tourists; disembarking ship; homemade titles; temples; sculptures; Thai architecture; devotional architecture; temple architecture; reclining Buddha; Buddhism; Bhikkhu; monasteries; robed Buddhist priests; sedan chair; palanquin; rickshaw; labor; locals carrying tourists; sawing giant log; gravel; Hong Kong street scenes; people pulling cart of lumber; "The China Jade Co" sign; Suzhou River; harbors; wharfs; furs; 1920s fashions; leopard print coat; Japan flags; welcoming committee; geysers; Diabutsu Temple; Oni figure; Oni figure engulfed in steam; Japanese mythological figures; Nara deer festival; people feeding deer; man eating with chopsticks; Japanese family; family smiles for camera; Kamakura Daibutsu; Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri Festival; The Great Buddha; giant Buddha; Kyoto street scenes; naps; merchants; touristic lens; 1920s Asia

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Trawick Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

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

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

Production Date: circa 1920s

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Japan; China; Thailand; Bangkok, Thailand; Siam; Kowloon, Hong Kong; Hong Kong; Kyoto, Japan; Shanghai, China; Nara, Japan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element:

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): 396