Round the World Trip: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Ceylon

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1955

Complete Record: Personal travel film; mostly hand held shots, several seconds in length; scenes of lanscape, cities, peasants, travel, animals, temples, agriculture, 1950’s dress/ cars, waterways; picnic scene with many 1950’s cars; “danger: beware of golf balls” in english and chinese; tunnel construction; airport; “Oriental Hotel”; snake handling; temple interiors (Golden Buddha); etc From inserted log: “Hong kong: monkeys at temple; hillside graves--urns; flocks of ducks and geese; looking across river into Red China; water buffalo presets some hazards when driving roads particularly at night; constructing a new apartment building; unearthed some ancient tombs; embarking for Bangkok; Chow Payar River; Boatmen are graceful; hyacinths and floating debris; Oriental Hotel- lizards on the ceiling and walls - soup; snake farm at Pasteur Institute - extracting venom - horses; King Cobras; Temple architecture; gold roofs - snakes; The Golden Buddha; stone lions guard the entrance; a trip on the Khlong to the floating markets; Boy Scouts; Vendor - not too happy; monks gathering; school children; royal barge; temple of the dawn; wash day; troops being trained by US; stone demon; thai youngsters are courteous; Bangkok traffic; Bangkok airport; trains are very good in Ceylon; clearing the jungle for farming - tremendous task, primitive means; monkeys & buffalo; stone fence; Dhagaboa [Abhayagiri Dagaba] Buddha; a meditation of the forest dwellers 8 century AD; sick buffalo; planting rice - plowman - sing as they work; white Dhagaboa - a platform of stone elephant; Kandy Garden - cabbage palms