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This is the second of five two-reel travelogues issued by Educational Pictures in 1917; Educational is best remembered for his comedy short subjects in the 1920s, but they also did a big business in travelogues. This episode was one of the movies repatriated from New Zealand in 2010. It can be viewed on the National Film Preservation web site in a handsome tinted copy.
No one knows precisely where Educational got the film. Speculation is that Benjamin Brodsky, who had issued his own travelogue, A TRIP THROUGH CHINA, compiled during almost a decade in the country, had shot fifty thousand feet of film. He may have licensed footage he did not use to Educational.
This episode shows street workers and river traffic in a couple of cities; one is identified as Hankow. The sheer mass of people performing skilled and unskilled labor is amazing, but even more so is the reaction of people to the camera. It seems particularly telling that spectators at a puppet show glance at the camera and move away quickly, moving their children to shield them from the camera's observation.
No one knows precisely where Educational got the film. Speculation is that Benjamin Brodsky, who had issued his own travelogue, A TRIP THROUGH CHINA, compiled during almost a decade in the country, had shot fifty thousand feet of film. He may have licensed footage he did not use to Educational.
This episode shows street workers and river traffic in a couple of cities; one is identified as Hankow. The sheer mass of people performing skilled and unskilled labor is amazing, but even more so is the reaction of people to the camera. It seems particularly telling that spectators at a puppet show glance at the camera and move away quickly, moving their children to shield them from the camera's observation.
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- Aug 19, 2014
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