Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco (Part II)
Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco (Part II) is a short film from 1912 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Chinatown, San Francisco, California: Captain Lewis was a licensed Chinatown guide; these films represent what was salvaged from a multi-reel film.
Chinese newspaper / gambling scene around table / people eating in restaurant / Capt. Lewis explains Chinese vegetables / inside poultry store / lady in traditional Chinese clothing / Captain Lewis and small children / end of apothecary scene on 5418-1 where man cooks up medicinal herbs and drinks them: he grimaces because it tastes so terrible / funeral activities. Bert Gould suggests that some of the interior shots were set up specifically for this film and probably made in a studio. Seeing America�s Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco Capt. H. J. Lewis presents and Describes his famous Oriental Travelogue BW Silent
11:15:31:03 CU Chinese newspaper; disembodied hand runs finger down newspaper.
11:15:36:28 1920s or earlier, man into door of building with sign in Chinese, Chinese lamps hung overhead, old man outside smokes long pipe.
11:15:54:01 Chinese man gathered around table smoking pipes and playing game, probably gambling.
11:17:08:21 Chinese storefront in Chinatown, store windows marked General Store and restaurant.
11:17:21:04 Chinese family in traditional clothes eating at table in restaurant. Great footage family at dinner table plays drinking game where each person holds out a certain number of fingers in row-sham-bow manner, loser takes shot of drink fed by opponent; people at table smiling, laughing, having good time.
11:19:21:02 CU Chinese butcher takes meat off of scale; butchers wears round glasses, cap and smokes a cigarette; signs in Chinese behind him and sign in English reads �Fish for Sale,� ducks hang on meat hooks behind butcher. VS butcher selling duck.
11:20:24:26 MS Chinese woman with hair ornately wrapped in bun over ears flirtatiously looks at camera from behind her fan, camera pans down woman who crosses her legs.
11:20:53:00 Badly damaged shot of Capt. H. J. Lewis San Francisco tour guide sitting with row of Chinese children and their mother.
11:21:03:13 Chinese man in western hat pours leafy vegetables and herbs into bowl, man leaves frame with bowl and returns with bow of soup. Old man takes sip of soup, and makes comical face pulling back from the bull, clenching his fists and trembles, man continues to drink the soup, finishes the bowl, then puts something in his mouth that makes him makes a strained face reacting to the potency of the food he placed in his mouth.
11:22:02:16 In traditional Chinese ceremony boy exits house wearing white robe and mask over face hitting cymbals, man in follows playing flute-like instrument, followed by boy in white robe with white KKK-like hood who kneels down to display or shrine with candles.
11:24:47:06 Boy in white robe with white hood kneeling before candles lights small piece of paper on fire then with that lights large ornately decorated piece of paper which goes up in flames; boy catches ashes in basket.
11:25:41:27 LS customer arrives at Chinese butcher takes duck out of crate and weighs it on scale then places the live duck in paper bag; butcher takes duck out of bag then places it in boxes whith a lever which he then cranks.| Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco (Part II) | |
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| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
| Distributed by | 0 |
Release date | 1912 |
Running time | 230 feet (approx) |
| Language | English |
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