| CHINESE CEREMONY Fire Ceremony and Other Chinese Scenes | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6798 |
| Catalog #: | 446443 | |
| Clip Number: | 446443-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 296 | |
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| Location: | China | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Religious LOCATIONS/ASIA: China | |
| Description: | CHINESE CEREMONY Chinese Fire Ceremony and other scenes. China MLS people dressed in elaborate embroidered robes stand in 2 rows facing each other; some are playing musical instruments; pagoda style roofs on building in BG. MLS priests (?) in dark robes putting dolls (incl. one c. 4 ft tall) into flames on an altar with small pagoda roof; elderly bearded man stands still in FG. and other people stand at side clanging cymbals of various sizes. LS procession; many people walking along rural road; some pull rikishaws or carry litters. 2 lines of worshipers file toward altar which has group of near life-size dolls standing in a row in front of it. MS woman sits on ground playing a drum. (And it's a rather unusual looking drum - looks like sort of hourglass shaped with ropes strung between top and bottom heads.) MLS man making reverance to a small shrine under tree; he keeps bowing in a rhythmic motion. LS man walking away on a bridge/collonade. View from boat on canal river, approaching bridge w/ much rickshaw and pedestrian traffic; there are small boats along both sides of the river and houses come up to edge of water. religious, shrine, boats, river, music, drums, percussion instruments, priests, | |
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