Home Movie: Sutta Collection: 005355 (silent)

Description: A tourist produced this reel with skill and a sense for documentation, showing devotional and quotidian scenes in southeast Asia in the mid-1930s. Highlights include a visit to Borobudur Temple in Java, the largest Buddhist temple in the world, and to Zhenhai Tower, the Five-Story Pagoda in Guangzhou. Also with many street scenes of local life in the interwar years. Most street scenes filmed in Indonesia, with short sequences in Hong Kong, show many types of daily labor including transportation, construction, and laundry including women's labor.

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Subjects: 1930s, Tourism, Crafts, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent

Tags: women's labor; women carry baskets on head; artisans carving horn; hand carving; Gamelan figure; puppetry; 1920s cars; city streets; people carrying a bed; McNish's Scotch Whiskey sign; bicycles; pony pulling carts; outdoor marketplace; open air market; stalls; racks of laundry; women washing clothes in rivers; wringing out fabric; partial nudity; shirtless women; portraits; laborers open a roll of cable; man with baby; parenthood; fatherhood; man smiles at camera; Victoria Theatre; Raffles Hotel in Jimbaran; Java; Bali; Indonesia; palm trees blowing the wind; windy; filmed from moving vehicle; filmed aboard boat; harbors; floating junks; wind in the trees; brass bands; sailors; waterfront scenes; Hong Kong streets; China; Guangzhou; Zhenhai Tower; Five-Story Pagoda; Borobudur Temple; wipes; Buddha statues; person prays at Borobudur; touristic gaze; ethnographic gaze

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Creator: Sutta Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Sutta Collection PC-0593, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: circa 1938

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Geographical Location: Bali, Indonesia; China; Hong Kong; Jimbaran, Bali; Java, Indonesia; Guangzhou, China

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 241