Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco (Part II)

Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco (Part II)

Chinatown, San Francisco, California: Captain Lewis was a licensed Chinatown guide; these films represent what was salvaged from a multi-reel film. Chinese newspaper / gambling scene around table / people eating in restaurant / Capt. Lewis explains Chinese vegetables / inside poultry store / lady in traditional Chinese clothing / Captain Lewis and small children / end of apothecary scene on 5418-1 where man cooks up medicinal herbs and drinks them: he grimaces because it tastes so terrible / funeral activities. Bert Gould suggests that some of the interior shots were set up specifically for this film and probably made in a studio. Seeing America’s Greatest Chinatown: San Francisco Capt. H. J. Lewis presents and Describes his famous Oriental Travelogue BW Silent 11:15:31:03 CU Chinese newspaper; disembodied hand runs finger down newspaper. 11:15:36:28 1920s or earlier, man into door of building with sign in Chinese, Chinese lamps hung overhead, old man outside smokes long pipe. 11:15:54:01 Chinese man gathered around table smoking pipes and playing game, probably gambling. 11:17:08:21 Chinese storefront in Chinatown, store windows marked General Store and restaurant. 11:17:21:04 Chinese family in traditional clothes eating at table in restaurant. Great footage family at dinner table plays drinking game where each person holds out a certain number of fingers in row-sham-bow manner, loser takes shot of drink fed by opponent; people at table smiling, laughing, having good time. 11:19:21:02 CU Chinese butcher takes meat off of scale; butchers wears round glasses, cap and smokes a cigarette; signs in Chinese behind him and sign in English reads “Fish for Sale,” ducks hang on meat hooks behind butcher. VS butcher selling duck. 11:20:24:26 MS Chinese woman with hair ornately wrapped in bun over ears flirtatiously looks at camera from behind her fan, camera pans down woman who crosses her legs. 11:20:53:00 Badly damaged shot of Capt. H. J. Lewis San Francisco tour guide sitt

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