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