Summary

FAR EAST #1

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: FAR EAST #1
File Number: MDS-45 16mm
Color: Color; Color
Type: Home Movie, Newsreel
Year: 1956
Subjects: 1950s, home movies, newsreels, Cambodians, South East Asia, Cambodian culture, South East Asian culture, ; Japanese, Buddhist temples, Eastern religions, Buddhism, Khmer architecture, ruins, South East Asian ; folk dancing, landscapes, childhood, tourists, tourism, traveling, sightseeing, indigenous people, ; traditional cultures, native cultures, folk dancing, folk dances, folkdances, greetings, introductions, ; Japanese culture, rituals, Pan American Grace Airlines, film executives, movie executives
Description: Home movies from 1956 of Murray and Dorothy Silverstone (and their daughter?) traveling throughout Cambodia and Japan. Extensive footage of the ruins of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, with tourists walking around the temple grounds looking at statues and ornamental details. Footage of Cambodian dancers performing traditional Cambodian dances. Japanese geishas performing traditional dances inside geisha house. Also contains Japanese newsreel welcoming Dorothy and Murray Silverstone to Japan. ************************************************************************************************************ 00:00:00 Silent Angkor, Cambodia View from airplane flying over clouds. View of airplane wing as airplane nears ground. People disembark from Cambodian airplane on tarmac. Pastoral landscape w cows grazing. 00:01:10:23 Silent Angkor Wat, Cambodia Tourists walking around temple grounds. VS facade Angkor Wat temple (good shots). CU devetas (stone carved dancing girls). VS INT Angkor Wat, CU stone bas-reliefs (very dark). 00:03:43:04 Silent Angkor Wat, Cambodia Tourists walking around temple grounds. VS CU devetas & bas-reliefs. Female tourist in dress carefully climbing down steep temple steps (dark). 00:05:33:08 Silent Angkor Wat, Cambodia Tourists & Buddhist monks on temple grounds. LA lion stone figures. PAN stone ruins & statues. Tourist taking photograph of ruins. Cambodians bicycling on path. 00:08:02:09 Silent Angkor Thom Angkor Wat, Cambodia PAN stone bas-reliefs on wall. Row of identical Buddhist stone figures leading up to temple. Tourists walking up to tower. 00:10:17:04 Silent Angkor Thom Angkor Wat, Cambodia Trees near temple. Tourists walking around temple ruins, down steep steps. Stone lion figures near pond. 00:11:08:19 Silent Woman in ornate, sparkling native outfits performing traditional Cambodian dances. (very dark - basically only see sparkling from gold costumes - kind of cool effect) 00:13:05:23 Silent Tourist posing for photograph w Cambodian dancer. Woman in native outfits performing traditional Cambodian dances (some shots very dark, others ok). Photographers taking photographs of tourists w Cambodian dancer. 00:15:07:28 Silent Woman in native outfits performing traditional Cambodian dances for audience (see flashes from cameras taking photographs). 00:16:33:01 Silent Angkor Thom, Cambodia Faade face temple at Angkor Thom. CU bas-reliefs on side of ruins. VS ruins, Bayon temple. 00:18:07:01 Silent Old (former) Cambodian flag on flagpole. View from inside airplane taking off & flying near small tornado. 00:19:52:28 Silent Japan Facade pagoda temple. 00:21:16:05 Silent Japan INT geisha house, geishas performing traditional dances. (dark) 00:23:44:24 w Sound Newsreel (in Japanese) welcoming Dorothy & Murray Silverstone (NEEDS TRANSLATION). PAA airplane approaching on runway. Japanese crowd wait at gate holding signs. Murray & Dorothy Silverstone & others (daughter?) disembark airplane & are greeted. MS man holding sign Welcome to Japan Mr. Murray Silverstone of 20th Century Fox Far East. Silverstones & others stand in front of airplane & wave. Japanese women present the Silverstones bouquets of flowers. 00:24:50:00 Silent INT Geisha house Geishas serving tea & performing traditional dances. (very dark, can barely see anything) Tourist taking photographs of Japanese workers. 00:28:12:13 OUT
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