I TROPERNE

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 407437).

Synopsis

INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Main title (5). LS down a street, pan right (20). A road in a temple complex (?) (32). LS down a street with two-storey houses on either side (43). Three men followed by a man carrying a box on his head walk to camera (57). A market (67). A woman serves food from her stall on a pavement (80). Rickshaw passes along a street (96). Sailing boats on a beach, in the middle distance fishermen haul in nets (?) (125). A man carries a sack; in the background is a large rail bridge (?) (140). LS of man climbing up palm tree (159). Men washing clothes in concrete baths; lines of drying washing seen in background (182). Men bathing in a river (206). A group of women seated on the ground check hair for lice (227). A boy and a girl pose for the camera (236). An elephant by a river (253). Two elephants with their handlers wade into a river (272) Jump in film (?). The elephants wade towards the shore (288). HAS looking down on elephants as they wade ashore (304ft). Incomplete.

 

Titles

  • AUS DEN TROPEN (Alternative)
  • FRA TROPERNE (Alternative)
  • FROM THE TROPICAL REGIONS (Alternative)
  • FROM TROPICAL REGIONS (Alternative)
  • I TROPIKERNA (Alternative)
  • IMAGES DES PAY PROPICAUX (Alternative)
  • NEI TROPICI (Alternative)
  • I TROPERNE
 

Technical Data

Year:
1910
Running Time:
1 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
98
 

Production Credits

Production Company
Nordisk Film