Fascinating 16mm Films of Japan, Hong Kong and Asia From the Last Century · Global Voices
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YouTube user Michael Rogge has uploaded a fascinating collection of videos documenting daily life in Japan and other parts of Asia, including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia during the Twentieth Century.
Some of the videos he shot himself while being based in Hong Kong and Japan in the 1960s. Other videos in Rogge’s YouTube collection include television programs and newsreel shorts he has rescued, converted into digital format and then uploaded to the internet.
For example, Rogge has uploaded this Pathé News depiction of life in 1916 in Japan’s Snow Country: