https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/71e9defd-88db-4527-94e8-29a3c61a9ed5 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Shot in 1950 by an unknown U.S. serviceman, this 16mm home movie shows Occupied Japan and briefly Hong Kong. It provides a striking time capsule of post-war life in Japan, a nation which was slowly rebuilding after defeat. It starts in summer with footage of a fire at the port of Yokohama. It also contains footage of a military base, the launching a private motorboat "The Joker", built for one of the servicemen , and the launch of the fishing vessel "Krill" (briefly seen in another film from the same group). It also contains some cabaret scenes related to R&R -- cancan dancing and stage performances. 0:10 Big fire at an open-air storage area 0:24 Bringing a firehose 1:17 A fire engine arrives 2:21 The area after the fire 3:17 A couple of US Army Jeeps fording a stream 4:00 Clearing a landslide 4:20 Mountainous forest 5:04 A group of children and villagers, looking at the strangers (the cameraman) 5:58 The jovial elder green-bespectacled US serviceman, seen in the previous 6:45 A building with a sign Kameyama, probably a rural hotel or an auberge (ryokan or minshuku) 6:54 Another sign Kameyama News 7:03 Electric Lighting Misuzawa Co. Ltd. People in the street. Possibly Oshuu city but might also be Hong Kong. 7:20 Man, making toy temple guardian toys. 8:05 Elderly man, holding a toddler in his arms. 8:28 A shakuhachi flute player busking 8:48 A teenage girl and her mother picking and sorting flowers for making flower decorations and arrangements for bars, hotels etc – it was a typical low-paid job for young women to take at the time. 9:15 Worker on a step-wheel pump in a ricefield 9:30 our green-bespectacled hero, followed by his friend, who trips over the water pipe and almost falls 10:00 Peasants with banners and ceremonial festival shrines walking past a building 10:00 The Golfer, looking younger, with a neatly-dressed Japanese man posing next to a truck. Lots of people gawking at them from behind. 10:49 Two trucks full of Japanese workers in re-purposed Imperial Japanese Army uniforms 11:04 Colonial mansion-styled building int he background 11:19 Curious children and passerby gawking 11:30 two US Servicemen 12:38 Women and men in peasant straw hats and kerchiefs tied over the mouth and nose, to protect from the dusty soil, clearing debris. 14:06 A Japanese MP guard in uniform 14:21 Factory ruins 14:32 American and Japanese servicemen on a motorboat, named "The Joker", resting upon a flatbed railcar. A Caucasian woman looks up at them. 15:16 Officers' barracks 16:24 A very non-Japanese looking street with a parked car 18:10 Underexposed footage 18:26 The motorboat 21:41 Rolling the completed motorboat upon the railcar towards the sea 29:45 Hoisting the boat with a crane to lower it into the water 30:52 Together with the Japanese construction crew 33:00 The boat's in the water 33:33 Circus juggling and acrobat 36:00 Clown, performing magic tricks 36:15 A lone cabaret dancer in a fur-lined sequin two-piece dress 37:05 French cancan dancers 38:00 Comical dancing number 39:00 more types of dancing 40:14 Magic tricks and a lottery game 40:50 Windswept highland landscape peppered with boulders 41:50 City panorama 42:56 Rose Hotel at Tsim Shar Tsui, Hong Kong again  43:05 Far East Motors - Storage 43:18 No longer existing church on the no longer existing hill... 44:29 American with green glasses, wearing a pith helmet and showing his chest 44:33 Elderly officer comes out of the house. 44:52 Meeting their commanding officer 45:35 Their wives – one is Japanese 46:35 A ship decorated for christening and launch 47:10 Launching the fishing vessel "Krill" 47:52 Talking with Japanese wife at the window 47:57 Our green-bespectacled gentleman is an Lt. Colonel 48:10 Ballet dancing 48:32 More cabaret dancing 50:20 Trucks and cars at the officers' barracks 51:53 A chained pet monkey eating rice from a bowl. 52:44 Turkeys 53:06 Countryside 54:09 A cabinetmaker 55:19 Grandmother with 2 toddlers 55:22 Mother picks up her toddler from a cart 55:50 HQ building in Yokohama again 56:21 Silk embroidery at home of the officer, who made this movie, curtains waving in the light breeze. 56:35 A Japanese vase holding flowers and willow tree branches, and a small Budai statue sit atop a piano 57:38 A wireless radio set  57:57 Details of the vase 58:33 Oni Noh mask hanging on the wall 59:01 Nicely decorated home overall. Closing shot of the wife . This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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