Reel

Hong Kong and Singapore, 1965

Hong Kong and Singapore, 1965
Clip: 459903_1_1
Year Shot: 1965 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 246
Original Film: WPA 015
HD: N/A
Location:
Timecode: 00:01:14 - 00:10:36

Overexposed shots of (government?) buildings, then some shots of harbor, docks, people loading/unloading, temple, street market (not quite as overexposed). Overexposed high angle pan. Better shots of streets, children, military vehicle, man feeding monkeys, girl feeds them VS monkeys in trees. Barbed wire fence around Ford plant. More overexposed wide shots. VS harbor with lots of boats. Poolside pans of people lounging. Pan of hotel exterior (Singapore Continental). 04:19 Cu sign: Hitel Siam Inter-Continental. Vs other hotel exteriors and pool. 05:24 amazing footage from boat on a canal or river of rural shanty homes on the water. River corwded with boats and docks and rural riverside markets. People paddling up and down. 06:06 Policeman directs boat traffic from roof of low building next to the water. 06:51 several pans of crowded apartment complex. OVerhead pan of docks/harbor crowded with boats. 07:57 wide pan of mountainside homes crowded together. more riverside pans, boats. Overhead shots of fountains, traffic, urban scenes. POV from boat on water of urban docks, buildings, other boats in water. 09:29 VS boys and family on small flat-bottom boats paddling. 09:51 ext. Ilikai Hotel, ext Waikikian hotel, poolside and grounds. Notes on can: "Aylward #15: Hong Kong and Singapore 1965". Dull and touristy color home movie footage of these cities. Interesting sights, terrible cinematography. Vacation, travel