Marshall Hall films
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1985.9.1
name: label: Creator
content: Hall, Marshall
place: label: Place
content: Australasia
label: Place
content: East Asia
label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Southeast Asia
label: Place
content: Australia
label: Place
content: Hong Kong
label: Place
content: Singapore
label: Place
content: Indonesia
label: Place
content: Malaysia
label: Place
content: Thailand
label: Place
content: Fiji
label: Place
content: Hawaii
label: Place
content: Samoa
topic: label: Topic
content: Harbors
label: Topic
content: Zoos
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Tourism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Adrienne Hall Bodie in 1985.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hall, Marshall
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white silent reversal; 1600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Marshall Hall Pacific Travel Footage ca. 1925"
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1985.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot in Hong Kong (harbor, atop Victoria Peak); Shanghai; Fiji (daily life; hair plastered with lime; outdoor barbershop, Suva; market); Malaysia (snake temple near Penang; Kampong; mosque; temples; local people; boy with snake; fire walking; gold mine at Raub, Pahang); Siam (Thailand) (temple; cemetery; Sakais peoples; using Salais blow pipe; jungle; slash and burn clearing of jungle); Java (Indonesia) (Tosari Terraud rice fields; wedding; fair; gold mine; paddie fields; bull racing on Madura Island; wedding of children); Batavia (Jakarta), Java (Indonesia) (fish market; restaurant, government buildings; volcano in Tengger mountains; rice fields; Blauw waters); Singapore (street scenes; market square; sampans in harbor and at dock; rickshaws; street cars; funeral; palace and grounds of the Sultan of Jahore; mosque; Tami "coolie" collecting latex sap from a rubber tree; rubber factory; riding an elephant; botanical gardens; Chinese funeral); American Samoa (fishing on Tau, largest island in the Manu'a Group; Flowerpot Island; building a "hong" village chief and family; girls playing cricket; Siva Siva dance; ship arrival and departure from Pago Pago); Hawaii  (ship scenes, Waikiki beach, Royal Hawaiian Hotel; Diamond Head); and Australia (Toronga Park; Sydney zoo with dancing ostrich; harbor).  Footage also includes a shipboard "crossing the equator Neptune party."

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