Take a trip back to China in the first half of the twentieth Century with this presentation of extraordinary, rare and beautiful travelogues, newsreels and home movies.
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007
Sheep Coming Through Chute, Humuula Ranch, Hawaii
1906
Forced Labour: SOS from a Chinese Prisoner
2023
Stuttgart Shanghai
2007
How Lucky China
2006
Nanook of the North
1922
Watch the Tempo
2018
La remise des décorations
1903
Sons of the Surf
1926
Redefining China's Family: Women
2008
V A P O R D R E A M S
2024