Japan to Hong Kong

Japan to Hong Kong

Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took 4 students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This video covers highlights of the Korea, China and Hong Kong portions of that trip. Includes footage of a train ride between Kamakura and Kyoto showing rice farms, the sacred island of Miyajima (Itsuku-Shima), Seoul, Korea. Also shows a willow pattern tea house, temples, and the harbor of the Whang-poo River in Shanghai. Includes scenes of Hong Kong, the upper deck of C.P. SS Empress of Russia, and views of Hong Kong from the docks at Kowloon.

P. H. Elwood (Philip Homer), b. 1884

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1929

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Video made from original 16 mm. film

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