{"id":447,"date":"2021-02-09T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-02-09T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:52:05","slug":"tai-ani-the-west-gate-1921-foo-chow-china-1921-river-scenery-china-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2021\/02\/09\/tai-ani-the-west-gate-1921-foo-chow-china-1921-river-scenery-china-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai-ani: The West Gate (1921) \/ Foo-chow, China (1921) \/ River Scenery China (1921)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tai-ani: The West Gate,<\/em> Foo-chow, China<\/em>, and River Scenery China<\/em> are all hundred year old, one minute long, slices of real life from various places in China. Tai-ani: The West Gate<\/em> and Foo-chow, China<\/em> are both street scenes, while River Scenery China<\/em> is footage from a busy river front somewhere. There’s not a lot of information to go with these, unfortunately, with the locations of the first and last one seemingly unknown, although the second one is, as the title suggest, from Fuzhou<\/a>, but they’re still captivating (to my eye, at least).<\/p>\n

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It’s nice having the two different camera angles in the two street scenes, as each one provides a nicely different perspective on the events (or non-events) shown. The elevated perspective in the Foo-chow footage, especially, makes it feel like I’m idly watching this out my window while drinking tea\/smoking\/waiting for a delivery to arrive (delete as appropriate for current procrastination scenarios).<\/p>\n

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Both of those also feature the near universal constant in these sorts of films of various bystanders unapologetically and unselfconsciously watching the camera, which is another thing I always really like. (Nowadays all you get is studied indifference or reflexive performance).<\/p>\n

This camera watching is mostly absent in the river scene, sadly, although there’s a bit of it halfway through. Maybe they’re too busy working to stare. <\/p>\n

Or maybe they’re just watching the boats, because they’re beautiful.<\/p>\n

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I could look at them all day.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I watched all these on the BFI Player, as usual: Tai-ani: The West Gate<\/a>; Foo-chow, China<\/a>; River Scenery China<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> As I’ve said, I really like minute long shots of anything<\/a>, pretty much.<\/em><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Somehow, I doubt anyone will be watching any of mine a hundred years from now, though.<\/em><\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> Unless for some reason my account on youtube is the only surviving artefact of our mysteriously lost civilisation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> Tai-ani: The West Gate<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1921<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 1 minute<\/em>
\nWatch: <\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> <\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1921<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 1<\/em>
\nWatch: <\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> River Scenery, China<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1921<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 1 minute<\/em>
\nWatch: <\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tai-ani: The West Gate, Foo-chow, China, and River Scenery China are all hundred year old, one minute long, slices of real life from various places in China. Tai-ani: The West Gate and Foo-chow, China are both street scenes, while River Scenery China is footage from a busy river front somewhere. There’s not a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,266,260,261,263,264,262,265],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-100-years-old","tag-257","tag-boats","tag-china","tag-documentary-footage","tag-real-life","tag-scenery","tag-static-cameras","tag-streets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}