History 历史

From an old documentary film. The Thai government advocates two rice crops a year instead of one by use of irrigation. Late King Bhumibol attends a yearly rice crop ceremony handing out blessed rice to the farmers. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

A documentary film taken two years after the independence of the country in 1957. Nkrumah was its first president See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

Documentary about ricecultivation during the Great Leap Forward. Quang Dong, Canton, Kwantung. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

Final part of documentary about southern China during the Mao period not free of propaganda. The cities Nan Chang and Canton (Guangzhou) are shown. Little did the Cantonese people realise what Mao had in store for them. See my other 1150 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

American Harvard professor Edwin O. Reischauer who was also US ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966 gives his observations on Japanese family life some 45 years ago. Reischauer was actually born in Tokyo in 1910. He died in 1990. A second part of this film will follow soon. See also my many other clips […]

Prof.Reischauer continues his observation of Japan (see also my previous clip). He focuses on the arts such as the Bunraku theatre, and woodblock artist Munokata to illustrate his points. But also on the student riots in protest against extension of the Japanese-American security pact. In describing Japan’s ‘Golden Age’ little did he foresee the recession […]

Subud members and their children had a new home then. Seen in this film of Philip Renard are also his sons Daniël and Immanuel, Reinbrand and Erika Visman, Steven Somsen, as well as Volkert Reijn with his wife Hamida who was expecting baby Halina. Lukas Wessels in close-up. This is one of the last pictures […]

A British couple decided to visit this even then popular bathing resort on the Mediterranian. Watch what this place looked like before the building boom began in Spain. See my other 1200 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source

Alicante fifty years ago. Popular excursions to Algar waterfall, Quadalest, Polop. Tourists were also treated to dancing source

The wife of a British police-officer leads us around Kuching more than fifty years ago See my other 1060 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Website ‘Man and the Unknown’ http://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/ source