Ceylon to Liberia, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 4

0291.0004
Pearson, Adelaide Collection
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1938 – 1939
Dancers and drummers, continues from previous reel. (Film changes to black and white) Same dancers. A covered wagon pulled by an ox. An elephant and mahouts by a stream. Boats being pulled up on shore. A tiger in an enclosure. Decorated elephants and mahouts in traditional dress. A man dancing in a crowd. African dancers. Crowd clapping along with dancers. (Film changes to color) Children. Dancers performing. (Film changes to black and white) Monkeys in a tree. Rickshaw driver in costume does dance with signs for 'The COO-EE, Teas, Grills' in the background. Shot of the shoreline. (Film changes to color) A line of women. Dancers in a village. [End of Reel]
Ceylon would become Sri Lanka in 1972.

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