Thailand, Land of Freedom

Duration: 28 min.

Year Published: 1984

Creator: iFB

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Presents a travelogue about Thailand, covering such topics as accommodations, food, cities, flowers, animals, and religion., Tours Bangkok, cosmopolitan Pattaya, and resort areas near the border with Burma. Highlights the fishing and tin mining on the islands of the Isthmus of Kra as well as traditional village life. Shows the agriculture in the central lowlands and the hill tribes who have preserved distinctive costumes and languages. Records events at the annual elephant roundup and explains how these animals are trained for the logging industry. Concludes with a Buddhist ceremony at nightfall.

Complete Record: , Tours Bangkok, cosmopolitan Pattaya, and resort areas near the border with Burma. Highlights the fishing and tin mining on the islands of the Isthmus of Kra as well as traditional village life. Shows the agriculture in the central lowlands and the hill tribes who have preserved distinctive costumes and languages. Records events at the annual elephant roundup and explains how these animals are trained for the logging industry. Concludes with a Buddhist ceremony at nightfall.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.