HUGE BRONZE BUDDHA REPLACED BY QUAKE
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Duration: ~10+ min | Format: Green-tinted silent newsreel/documentary A silent-era newsreel or documentary about Japan, likely from the early-to-mid 1920s. The opening intertitle title card references "HUGE BRONZE BUDDHA REPLACED BY QUAKE" from Tokio (Tokyo), Feb. 13, describing the famous bronze Buddha at Kamakura being displaced by the great earthquakes — a clear reference to the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. A later intertitle explains: "On the Plains of Kamakura, where many big battles were fought and later rose the City, now stand vast rice fields..." Scenes include Japanese people walking a rural street with utility poles and trees, and traditional Japanese thatched-roof farmhouses (minka) set against terraced hillsides. The footage has a distinctly green tint and documents both the landscape and the aftermath of the earthquake.
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Duration: ~10+ min | Format: Green-tinted silent newsreel/documentary
A silent-era newsreel or documentary about Japan, likely from the early-to-mid 1920s. The opening intertitle title card references "HUGE BRONZE BUDDHA REPLACED BY QUAKE" from Tokio (Tokyo), Feb. 13, describing the famous bronze Buddha at Kamakura being displaced by the great earthquakes — a clear reference to the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. A later intertitle explains: "On the Plains of Kamakura, where many big battles were fought and later rose the City, now stand vast rice fields..." Scenes include Japanese people walking a rural street with utility poles and trees, and traditional Japanese thatched-roof farmhouses (minka) set against terraced hillsides. The footage has a distinctly green tint and documents both the landscape and the aftermath of the earthquake.
A silent-era newsreel or documentary about Japan, likely from the early-to-mid 1920s. The opening intertitle title card references "HUGE BRONZE BUDDHA REPLACED BY QUAKE" from Tokio (Tokyo), Feb. 13, describing the famous bronze Buddha at Kamakura being displaced by the great earthquakes — a clear reference to the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. A later intertitle explains: "On the Plains of Kamakura, where many big battles were fought and later rose the City, now stand vast rice fields..." Scenes include Japanese people walking a rural street with utility poles and trees, and traditional Japanese thatched-roof farmhouses (minka) set against terraced hillsides. The footage has a distinctly green tint and documents both the landscape and the aftermath of the earthquake.
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