The Islands of South China & Java Seas (sound)

Description: A dated Royal Cruise Line film created to promote their cruise through the Java and South China Seas, with stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. With narration that glorifies the colonial history in the region, the reel is aimed at a white western audience and offers the journey on their fleet of cruise ships as a way to explore Asian and Pacific Islander people and culture. Features meaningful stock photography of landmarks of the region such as the Borobudur Temple in Indonesia and the Peak in Hong Kong among hundreds of other short sequences showing dance, festivals, agriculture, labor, city streets, and landscapes of the four countries visited.

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"China Seas"

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Subjects: 1980s, Tourism, Boats and boating, Vacations, Transportation, Colonialism, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture

Tags: focus cards; countdowns; sunsets; sunrises; cruise ships; luxury cruises; travel; luxury; promotion; advertisements; Royal Cruise Line; Java Seas; sailing; airplanes; parks; Orientalism; narration; narrators; Singapore Sling cocktails; cultures; cuisines; cruise ship activities; swimming; performances; dance; cruise entertainment; shrines; Buddhism; Borobudur Temple; Hinduism; bas reliefs; Ramayana; bull races; Balinese dancing; monkey dance; artisans; wood carving; painting; silver crafts; weaving; dining; buffets; colonial history of the Philippines; cemetery; service workers; breakfast in bed; mosques; fishing villages; seashells; souvenirs; canoe tours; waterfalls; river rapids; floating restaurants; trams; South China Sea; flute music; British narration; trading routes; maps; signs; Star ferries; Victoria Harbor; Causeway Bay; Hong Kong Island; New Territories; the Peak; the Peak tramway; romanticization; advertising; commerce; travel industry;

Film Sponsor: Royal Cruise Line

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date: circa 1983

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Geographical Location: Singapore; Indonesia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bali, Indonesia; Philippines; Manila, Philippines; Hong Kong; Kowloon, Hong Kong; Surabaya, Indonesia; Zamboanga City, Philippines

Genre/Form: sponsored, screen advertising, documentation

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman LPP

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical

Edge Code: cross triangle cross

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 767