A Day in Tokyo
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.67
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 310 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for "The Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film documents various scenes of city life in Tokyo, Japan. Film includes a trolley, busy streets, a department store with an amusement park for children, a market area, spectators watching a baseball game and nighttime with neon lights illuminating the streets. The film also shows fishermen fishing at a wharf, Japanese sumo wrestling, Japanese theater, and women in traditional kimono dress. The narrator discusses how Tokyo is a very advanced city and how it is influenced by western culture.

Legacy Keywords: Street scenes ; Urban transportation ; Stores, Retail ; Markets Japan ; Baseball Asia ; Wrestling ; Theater Japan ; Costume ; Fishing Japan