A Trip Through China
Documentary on the then-new Chinese Republic, taken over a ten-year period. Footage includes races at Shanghai, imperial ceremonies at the national Temple of Heaven, scenes of the destruction caused by the typhoon of 1914, and the...
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"Benjamin Brodsky was a businessman who moved from San Francisco after the Earthquake to China, where he set up a film exchange. When he returned to San Francisco in 1915, he reportedly had close to a hundred thousand feet of film he had shot while in China. He edited it down to a long travelogue and a couple of years later into a series of ten short films. Although archive copies of the full film reside in the Library of Congress and in the Taipei Film Archives, this extract, recovered from New Zealand in 2010, seems to contain footage not included in the full feature version; apparently Brod..."
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Documentary on the then-new Chinese Republic, taken over a ten-year period. Footage includes races at Shanghai, imperial ceremonies at the national Temple of Heaven, scenes of the destruction caused by the typhoon of 1914, and the...