History 历史

A visit by Merv Thomas to the capital of Tibet. It was a mysterious no-go country at one time, but the mystery has been worn off by now See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

Merv Thomas visited almost twenty years ago this city in Yunnan in South West China which has grown and grown in the last decades. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

A super 8 film of an Austrian couple Sound track by me. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

A silent super 8 film to which I have improvised sound of a Buddhist festival near Bentota in this beautfil island. A viewer adds: This is actually not an “elephant festival” it is a mini form of “Perahera” . ( smaller than the popular Kandy Esala Perahera) . It is to pay homage to Mahākāśyapa […]

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My friend and colleague Hans Brinckmann and his wife Toyoko called on Hong Kong during their cruise through the Far East in 1964. He made a splendid 8mm record of it. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ […]

An 8mm film taken by an Army officer in the years after the war. There is intrusion of light when he changed films. Anyhow it seems an interesting document of what life looked like then. Ladies still in kimonos, even men. See my other 1170 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s […]

A 9,5mm film taken after I had just arrived in HK by freighter after a 1,5 month journey. | worked in a Dutch bank in des Voeux Rd Central. With colleagues I went on outings. More to follow. See my other 1170 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit […]

Further episodes of my life in Hong Kong around 1950/1. It was taken on 9,5mm film quite unknown in the Far East. The film is damaged. Sound added by me presently. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ […]

Further episodes of my life in Hong Kong around 1950/1. It was taken on 9,5mm film quite unknown in the Far East. You will see me in the Dutch bank I worked for. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website ‘Man and the […]