Crossroads of the World
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.66
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; 319 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934
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 "Along the Road to Romance on the Magic Carpet of Movietone." The film is shot in Singapore and depicts scenes from around the country. The film shows harbors in Singapore with ships and shows a local people diving for money being thrown to them by tourists. The film then shows the market with rickshaws and then the Chinese quarter. The film includes footage of the Singapore Army. Film ends by showing the Sakais, an indigenous group of people that live in the rain forest (food preparation, eating, and shooting with handmade blow-guns).

Legacy Keywords: Harbors ; Boats Singapore ; Tourism ; Diving ; Rickshaws ; Indigenous peoples