Rare 1927 Film: People Who Live in a Crowded Valley (2K Restoration) - Life in China | Footage Farm

Описание: #History #China #1920s
This is a stunning 2K digital restoration of the rare educational film "People Who Live in a Crowded Valley." Produced by the DeVry Corporation as part of their "World Geography" series, this silent film offers a rare ethnographic window into life along the great river plains of China nearly a century ago.

The film was part of a larger curriculum-based series designed for "Human Geography", focused on the relationship between environments and human activity. It serves as a visual case study of the Yangtze or Yellow River regions. The film highlights:

The Delta & The Plain: It focuses on the intense population density of the Chinese river plains.
Isolationism: It explores the theory (popular in 1920s academia) that China's geographic barriers led to a distinct, "isolated" cultural development.
Subsistence & Labor: Includes hand-tilled agriculture, water buffalo, and the "sampan" lifestyle (families living on small boats in the crowded waterways).

Founded by Herman A. DeVry, the company was a pioneer in the "visual education" movement. While they are famous today for DeVry University, in the 1920s they were the leading manufacturer of portable "suitcase" projectors and high-quality educational films intended to replace traditional textbooks with "motion pictures for the classroom.

Shot-list:
00:10 Brief shot of the Great Wall
00:15 Title Card: "Shut off thus from the rest of the world, 300,000,000 people have worked out a civilization of their own"
00:18 Temple
00:33 Group of Children holding hands in circle and playing
00:45 Two young girls carrying babies on their backs.
00:55 Two young boys carrying a pig with a shoulder pole
01:00 Market
01:05 Man with shoulder pole
01:07 Title Card: "One of China's river seaport cities"
01:11 Market Scenes
01:32 Cooking in large wok
01:35 Port Scenes. Sampans
01:44 Title Card: "A Chinese solution of the problem of living in the most thickly populated country in the world"
01:51 Sampan. Kid walking on plank.
01:56 Title Card: "Note the life preserver" - Kid with lifesaver.
02:07 Man smoking long pipe (Yen Tsiang = Smoking pistol?)
02:08 Family cooking eating aboard Sampan
02:15 Title Card: "Kitchen, dinning room, living room, conveyance - and bedroom"
02:21 Family eating aboard Sampan
02:35 Chinese sailing ships (Junks)
02:39 Woman tiller steering with baby on her back.
02:42 Old man and kid rowing (long oar)
02:50 Port scenes, various boats (junks)
02:54 Title Card: "Up through the rich delta lands of the more southern of China's two great rivers"
03:05 Title Card: "Past rice fields"




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