| Tokyo Festival | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1765 |
| Catalog #: | 425398 | |
| Clip Number: | 425398-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-085-06 | |
| Timecode: | 00:31:10 - 00:32:07 | |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Folk Dance FESTIVALS: Cultural LOCATIONS/ASIA: Japan, Tokyo | |
| Description: | "A gigantic religious festival in Tokyo National Stadium has some 75,000 people performing intricate dances, gymnastics, and pictorial effects. The finale: World Peace spelled out in 11 languages." TLS/MSs Japanese lay Buddhists (seems more like Shinto to me but they may be Pure Land Buddhists) comprised of women brandishing fans, pointy hats & tambourines performing a synchronized dance in stadium. LS another group forming the outline of roof lines using iron ladders. Sideview MS crowd applauding graciously. LSs audience in grandstands using cardboard cut-outs to depict various pictorial displays: mosaics of flowers, landscapes, etc. MS grandstanders holding up cardboard squares. LS "World Peace" spelled out in grandstands. | |
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