| THE SHRINE IN THE MOUNTAINS Buddhist monks make pilgrimages to the Shrine of Myckissko. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6700 | |
| Catalog #: | 369767 | |
| Clip Number: | 369767-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 11 | |
| Timecode: | 01:14:05 - 01:15:50 | |
| Location: | Korea | |
| Year Shot: | 1920 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ART: Sacred ART: Sculpture, Relief BUILDINGS: Religious, Shrine FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/ASIA: Korea RELIGION: Buddhism | |
| Description: | THE SHRINE IN THE MOUNTAINS Buddhist monks make pilgrimages to the Shrine of Myckissko. Korea "In far off Korea we journeyed along the old Pilgrams Way to the great mountain shrine." People walk the "Pilgrims Way" to a shrine high in the mountains. Pilgrims walking on path through forest carrying logs and bundles of branches. Wide shot looking up slope to the shrine building. More steep mountain slopes in BG. Wide shot side view of pilgrims dressed in white walking up mountain path. Some elderly or sick people are carried up on litters. Wide shot mountain gorge. Pine trees clinging to rocks. Pan to water spurting out of opening in dam. More pilgrims walking on path toward camera. Pan from small pagoda w/ open sides to larger building w/ a little tower in FG. A few people sit on porch. MS 3 men on porch of shrine. "Here far from the town is the old monks burial ground. Old even when the Conqueror landed in Britain." Pan past statuary, unusual pillars topped by sphere. "And remoter still the great Shrine of Myckissko, a colossal Budda hewn out of the rock itself, fifty feet high, made in an age long since forgotten." At Shrine of Myckissko wide shot of gigantic 50 foot high sitting Buddha carved on the face of a cliff. Smoke from incense rising in FG. Closer shot panning upward on Buddha. Showing the mudra. | |
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