Moving Image |  | Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing
Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:08:14
Clip excerpted from original films donated to Northeast Historic Film by Charles Gilbert family. This clip shows Hong Kong harbor, Shanghai, and Beijing streets with transportation including human power, camels, bicycles, rickshaws, trolleys, wagons. The film was shot by Charles Gilbert, a Maine businessman traveling with his wife on a world cruise, which he edited together with purchased film of China, probably bought on shipboard. Charles Gilbert graduated from the University of Maine, Orono, in 1894. He worked as an engineer for Great Northern Paper Company until his retirement in 1924. Mr. Gilbert lived in Bangor, Maine, owned a home in Castine, and took several trips around the world.
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