An untitled film for use with a lecture, showing scenes in Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Peking.

A train arrives at an unidentified station in Malaya. Waterfront scenes in Penang and Singapore (308). Junks and sampans in the waters around Hong Kong (341). In the typhoon shelter at Aberdeen (411). A funeral procession (483). Street barbers (495). Flower hawkers (524). Waterfront scenes (545). A ship alongside a pier, followed by shots of coolies loading cargo on to junks (590). A British battleship, with a steamer passing in the foreground (625). Various shots of junks and sampans (714). A line of coolies carrying baskets suspended from their shoulders (731). Junks and sampans on the Yangste, with the Shanghai Bund in the distance, showing the Cathay Building (814). A view of the city taken from a building (835). Street scenes taken from above (860). Street hawkers; a beggar; and men sawing wood (930). Street scenes in Peking, showing wheelbarrows, street vendors and temples (1085). [35mm].