Finding and Using Moving Images In Context

Charles Gilbert Collection, 1928, frame enlargements. Click on images to enlarge.

Notes in their current form (before editing and annotation) for the Charles Gilbert Collection:
39:10 Intertitle: “Hong Kong, the commercial capital of Southern China. CHINA” Hong Kong harbor, buildings, ocean liner. Pan ocean liner as seen from street. Harbor, hills.
40:39 Rickshaws on street. Hong Kong street, various shots. Mrs. Gilbert in fur collared coat and hat. More street scenes. Bicycle. Loaded carts. Many people pushing a cart with rice bags? Cart with baskets (with pigs?)
41:47 Harbor with variety of boats under way, steam boat, human power. Stern wheeler.
42:46 Intertitle: “The Bund at Shanghai, a world renowned waterfront. CHINA.” Crowded Shanghai street with automobiles. (short)
42:50 Intertitle: “Millions, crowded off the land, live in these sampan cities on the river. CHINA” LS many sampans. Single boat under sail.
43:13 Intertitle: “Shanghai’s business streets look western and efficient. CHINA.” Streetcar. Cars. Rickshaws.
43:28 Intertitle: “Peking, the old imperial city of the days of the Empire. CHINA.” Wide street. Man driving horse-drawn carriage. Dog in street. Rickshaws. People walking in street. Signs.
43:50 Kneeling camels alongside building, people pass. Woman in scarf. (blurry shot)
44:16 Vendors in marketplace. Steam ascends from food. Tea pots.
44:30 Horse. Mrs. Gilbert in rickshaw. Two mules, harnessed in succession, draw empty wagon. Signs on building in background.
44:58 Crowd in square. Mrs. Gilbert handles small square box. Chinese man inverts box, some kind of toy. Children wear hats.
45:20 Man wheels large loaded wheelbarrow in street. Ladles water?
45:32 Mother with child in arms ascends steps, enters brick house.
45:39 Man urinates near building?
45:45 Man cleans street or keeps dust down by throwing water from large bucket. Trolleyn tracks in street. Rickshaw passes with two passengers. Two men lift and move water bucket. Man carries produce on long pole across shoulder.
46:00 Man pulls loaded wagon. Bicyclist passes. Rickshaws, car. Two men clean street. Mrs. Gilbert in rickshaw. Loaded horse-drawn wagons. Horses.
46:58 Three soldiers marching in street.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert ride in separate rickshaws. Mr. Gilbert waves. Man wheels wheelbarrow with large wheel.
47:27 Large building, Taverne du Pekin. Man runs past many empty waiting rickshaws. Pan.

48:08 Intertitle: ‘The Great Wall, near Peking, 2500 miles of frontier protection. CHINA” Great Wall. CU path on Wall.
48:30 Intertitle: ‘The Forbidden City, once sacred to the Emperor–for 1000 years no foreigner entered. PEKING.” Pan. View of people walking.

END CHINA