PAN AM AIRLINES JAPAN TRAVELOGUE "SO SMALL MY ISLAND" 72412

This Pan Am Airlines travelogue film "So Small Island" takes viewers on a trip to Japan aboard a Boeing 707 in the 1960s, and shows the "old" Japan of tradition and the "new" modern Japan where “East meets West.” It includes a great deal of footage shot in Tokyo, Kyoto, and rural Japan. There are terrific street scenes of downtown, shopping districts, and the people of Japan. Also seen in the film are images of rural Japan, and the scenic beauty of the Home Islands as a tourist might have experienced them in this era. Mt. Fuji is seen as well as various shrines, Geisha girls, the fishing fleet, ceremonial Shinto shrines, a water festival, and even a motion picture being made featuring samurai.


Film focus leader (0:07). Interior Boeing 707: cabin, seats, dining area (1:32). Japanese business man monologue (1:59). Mt. Fuji peaks above clouds (2:48). View of Tokyo on banks of perhaps Sumida River (3:23). Montage modern buildings, pedestrian traffic (3:24). Children run, wave at camera in village outside Tokyo (4:33). Employees of local inn/ ryokan wave advert flags to passersby (4:46). Women in kimonos bow to guests at inn (5:03). Woman slips off wooden Geta sandals at door (5:08). Woman in kimono opens screen door to perhaps tokonoma reception room and bows head to tatami flooring before entering (5:24). Decorative details of room (5:48). Woman meticulously presents food on table (5:58). Protagonist examines bowls and Nihonga painting (6:32). Manicured, green garden, bridge, arched trees (6:50). Mt. Fuji seen from shore of Lake Kawaguchi (7:21). Close-up snowy summit (7:41). Patchwork landscape of small farms: rice fields, greens (7:43). Women tend to rice field in Asian conical hats (8:20). Men and women work together pull in fishing nets (8:33). Fishing boats return to harbor (9:10). Women at the dock help haul in catch (9:31). Fresh fish in woven baskets (9:36). Men and women pull Japanese fishing boat into sea at dawn (10:02). Koi fish pond (10:16). Geishas: close up of Oshiroi white face paint (10:22). Shadows of geishas doing traditional fan dance (10:37). Geisha performance Great Cherry Festival, Kyoto (11:17). Japanese lanterns (11:42). Children at festivals in kimonos and and dressed as samurai (11:50). Paper-slide theater (12:51). Montage of Shinto shrines amid nature (13:18). Great Buddha of Kamakura (13:27). Jizo sculpture in hillside (13:36). Torii gate (14:04). Bronze lantern (14:14). Montage of nature: cherry blossoms, jagged cliffs, sea (14:27). Carp banners, boy explains meaning (15:26). Devil-masked Bugaku Dancer (16:06). Rows of Torii Gates lead up the hill at perhaps Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto (17:15). School-aged pilgrims along Tōkaidō Road (17:33). Ceremonial dance: samurais and geishas (18:09). Filming battle scene for samurai film (18:56). Manicured gardens, flora and fauna (19:40). Art of floral arrangement (20:01). Peasant carries water buckets on path (20:16). Wasen ship at sea (20:20). Small fishing boat and other fishing methods (20:30). Female Ama divers (20:50). Topless divers dry off on shore (21:07). Craftsmanship: preparing textiles in stream (21:47). Delicate painting on vase (22:03). Pottery factory (22:10). Aerial view outskirts of Kyoto (22:15). Humble market, industrial factory in background (22:18). Men heat metal in factory (22:27). Street of Kyoto: precession for Hollyhock festival, carts of flowers (22:40). Clips highlighting contrast of old and new in Kyoto: train station, modern shopping buildings, traditional architecture (23:17). Water festival: dancing, elaborate boats (24:01). Scenes from boat on Seto Inland Sea, journey back to Tokyo (24:37). Train moves through rocky valley (25:09). Mother holds son and looks out at Mt. Fuji from moving train (25:13). Aerial view of lakeside area (25:17). Close-up of decorative painting, interior of temples and shrines (25:33). Return to bustling streets of Tokyo (26:00). Tattooed men participate in festival procession (26:55). Japanese baseball game (27:13). Final scenes of Tokyo and Mt. Fuji (27:24).

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