Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005401 (silent)

Description: The Chinese American Leong family of San Francisco visits Hong Kong and Japan in 1960.

notes on film can:
Hong Kong
Japan

lab stamp: PROCESSED BY KODAK R Aug 60

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Subjects: 1960s, Tourism, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Water, Vacations, Leisure and recreation, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture

Tags: image extends between perforations; camera shutter problems; Tsukiji Hongan-ji Temple; Imperial Palace (Tokyo); parks; swans; tour groups; sightseeing; National Diet of Japan building; palaces; moats; maintenance workers; ladders; tour buses; giant Buddha statues; bodies of water; harbors; waterfalls; rocky streams; onsens; bathhouses; street scenes; lakes; Tsurugaoka Hachimangu; Hakone Line tour boat; Lake Ashi; koi ponds; Japanese gardens; funicular railways; cable cars; gondolas; Owakudani; sulfur vents; hot springs; person filming; winding camera; rocky gorges; forested hillsides; filmed from moving boat; footbridges; straw hats; creek swimming; wooden boats; photographers; box cameras; tripods; Victoria Harbor; junk boats; danger signs; Kowloon Public Pier sign; breaststroke; family photos; canons; beaches; city street markets; pedestrians; street vendors; Chung Chi College sign; stone forts; Kat Hing Wai walled village; guardhouse towers; carrying water in buckets; pedestrian alleyways; hillside dwellings; beaches; walking towards camera; group photos; matching outfits; posing for camera; domestic interiors; Chinese American people; Asian American people; Hong Kongers; Hong Kong Chinese people; Japanese people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Leong Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Leong Family Collection PC-0835, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1960

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Hong Kong; Japan; Hakone, Japan; Kowloon, Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Kamakura, Japan

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 474