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An 8mm record of a visit from Hong Kong by Navy personnel in 1960.Visits to Clark Airbase. Along the National Highway to John Hay airbase See my other 1100 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

I must admit that I’m not sure where exactly this 8mm film was taken. I take it that scenes in Canggu were taken. I also see gotong royong because of Arabic Jawi script at 0:22 and 0:42. The road signs are distinctively Malay. I reckon the ferry service links Johore and Singapore. The flag on […]

In my previous clip Flight to Bali arrival on the exotic island was recorded. As a sequel the 8mm shows us the West-Coast Canggu and Celuk and the pasars. A viewer identifies: 3:00 Ubud Monkey Forest temple Reply Manage all comments See my other 1100 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s […]

A sound super 8 film of an Austrian couple almost 50 years ago. They fly from Vienna to Moscow. Once in Singapore the Tiger Balm Garden is being visited. In a next instalment Singapore’s gardens and zoo will be seen. See my other 1100 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: […]

As a sequel to Flight to Singapore their super 8 sound film records a visit to Singapore’s beautiful gardens See my other 1100 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

In the third part of their travelogue the Austria couple after a leisurely stay in the Imperial Hotel leave Singapore to visit historical Malacca, once occupied by the Portugese and Dutch (remembered by the grave of Herman Schenckenbergh) but now an independent state of the federation of Malkaysia See my other 1100 clips by searching […]

Before leaving for Vienna the Austian couple visits Kuala Lumpur and some of their monuments in 1979. I visited the Malaysian capital in 1961. I wonder if important changes took already place in those 18 years. See my other 1100 clips by searching YouTube with ‘michael rogge’ Find my photo’s here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/ Visit my website […]

One of the first films I took in HK with my new Bolex H16mm camera in Kodachrome. I won the first prize in a HK Amateur Cine Club competition and also in Japan. It was a time of water shortage for the thousands of refugees from China. See my other 1100 clips by searching YouTube […]

Although this 8mm film was dated 1968 I have not found anywhere that king Baudouin visited the Congo after 1960 after independence was declared and President Kasavubu took over.The beginning of the film shows Presidential domain Parc de la N’Sele which was opened by Pres. Mobutu in 1966. See my other 1150 clips by searching […]

An American couple with their sons visited 50 years ago the impressive temples of Angkor Wat and made an 8mm record thereof. Notice that there are hardly any foreign visitors then. See my other 1100 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/ […]