MACAO / MACAU HISTORIC 1930s TRAVELOGUE MOVIE 44854

Library Film, Inc. presents “Beacon of the East,” a circa 1945 black-and-white picture that takes its viewer to “Macao.” (Macau is an autonomous region on the south coast of China. It had been a part of the Portuguese Empire for more than 400 years). Much of the material in the film probably predates WWII, but it's difficult to know for certain. Because it was hardly impacted during World War II, an opening scroll for the film explains that the film features “authentic” scenes of the “ancient city of the Orient.” Scenes include the first lighthouse ever built on the China coast and surprisingly Mediterranean-style buildings. Chinese farmers are shown at mark 02:30 walking down Macao’s lone “highway” as they make their way to market. “They carry their heavy loads for miles slung on poles over their shoulders,” the viewer is told, while a few of the more affluent residents are shown traveling by bicycle. Away from the coastline, the viewer is shown more traditional Chinese structure, beginning near mark 04:00, while of the temple festivals and processions are shown starting at mark 05:30. The A-Ma Temple, Queen of Heaven, is shown at mark 07:00, along with many other sites, including a glimpse of many of the firecrackers the narrator says are made there, and an armada of the fishing junks that head out to sea every day, as the picture comes to an end.
Macau also spelled Macao, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, China. Macau is also bordered by the city of Zhuhai in Mainland China to the North and the Pearl River Estuary to the East and South. Hong Kong lies about 64 kilometres (40 mi) to its East across the Delta. With an estimated population of around 652,500 living in an area of 30.5 km2 (11.8 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.
Macau was administered by the Portuguese Empire and its inheritor states from the mid-16th century until late 1999, when it was the last remaining European colony in Asia. Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in the 1550s. In 1557, Macau was rented to Portugal from Ming China as a trading port. The Portuguese Empire administered the city under Chinese authority and sovereignty until 1887, when Macau, through a mutual agreement between the two countries, became a colony. Sovereignty over Macau was transferred to China on 20 December 1999. The Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau and Macau Basic Law stipulate that Macau operate with a high degree of autonomy until at least 2049, fifty years after the transfer.
Under the policy of "one country, two systems", the State Council of the People's Republic of China is responsible for military defense and foreign affairs while Macau maintains its own legal system, public security force, monetary system, customs policy, and immigration policy. Macau participates in international organizations and events that do not require members to possess national sovereignty.
Macau is among the world's richest regions, and as of 2015 its GDP per capita by purchasing power parity is higher than that of any country in the world, according to the World Bank.
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[@michaelrsaso]

Thank you, Brother Jim!

[@michaelrsaso]

Thank you, Brother Jim! I truly enjoyed my teaching experience there, and still hear daily from friends and former students! Have all of these photos in color, in my own collection.

[@michaelrsaso]

Thank you Brother Jim! I re Ally enjoyed and was honored to teach at tye Catholic university there, great photos!

[@canman5060]

You can drive from Macau to Hong Kong pretty soon !

[@larryrwendelljr4465]

All I can say it is beautiful area and hope Mainland China keeps it promise.

[@lilly1803]

It is, still. You can enjoy history... But it's more and more like a gamble burrow now

[@user-kt6bz5um7m]

I first went to Macau in 1971 when it was still a colony of Portugal. At that time I found it to be charming, and a relic of the past. Even on a visit in 1984, it retained its charm as it was still a colony of Portugal. My most recent visit was in 2011, and it was no longer a colony of Portugal, and for the most part a charmless casino focused gambling hub. Pity! Thanks for this video.

[@user-kt6bz5um7m]

Brilliant observations!

[@robertbruce6750]

Wonderful observations about Macau. I agree that the changes are a pity.

[@fernandolk4536]

Two Weights and Two Measures, One World, Two Systems... The Future as a Function of a Brutal Past (Just Paraphrasing). Because Macau Was a Portuguese Territory, It Suffered No Ravages of WW2, Except When the Soon to Be Eurojapanese Great Industrial Allegiance Air Raided. There Was Almost No Damage to the Portuguese Heritage, Except When the Former Empire Agreed to Return It, and In Exchange, Locals Kindly Managed to Rebuilt It in a Way that Not Only Leave the Bogus Impression that Former Colonies Would Be Worse-Off Without Imperial Colonialism, But Also Masquerades the Full Extension of Ancient Colonial Trading Routes, From Brazil to Nagasaki (With Possible Stop-Overs in Luderitz, Ferreira Cape Town, in the Thames, Gamla Stan, Hafencity, Siam, Malaca, Malukus, Mataram, Torres Strait, and etc...), and Its Connections to the Nefarious Events that Occurred in the 20th Century (As It Really Happened). "The Colonial Trade-Off" Let us make cars and rob them hard We'll build a nation, with a statue at the mountain and rip it as we may need every resource we can find everything, at all Assemble it up, charge more (rip them off, like exploited cash cows) so they can't pay it, at all I know why you broke the dam that day You do pile, and if they default they will never be --forgiven like a ruthless drug lord you will sentence them --to death You just avenge Assemble it up, poison them and like a cold nazi doctor you refuse to provide the cure so they can die, at all so they can die, without claiming their own property -at all

[@Joaquin_Z]

Macau was much more fascinating and prettier under Portugal. Now it is nearly half mainland Chinese, the Macanese natives are a minority in their own home, and absolutely no one speaks Portuguese/Macanese Patua anymore. When it comes to its Portuguese heritage, Macau only has façades left. None of the heart and soul.

[@wistonlawsons4443]

But now you have big cassino investments at the time there was only one

[@nunocunhaataide7959]

@@wistonlawsons4443 Obrigado pelo link, mas o português deles é muito diferente do nosso..

[@Wilhelm5381]

It still is a charming place...

[@yiwenluo8588]

if you believe that only being colonized makes a region chariming那你的人生也就这样了，你好好活着吧你伞兵

[@robinfoxer9702]

@@yiwenluo8588 Yes

[@arjanterveen9534]

wish i was there 100 jaar's ago, and meet the dutsch writer-p8.J J Slauwerhoff ,was there ;and smoke some pipe ;walk and talk over the dutsch,portugees and cloom- chinee's sfeer from the past...!

[@ysa4473]

3:34 1930년 마카오에는 물소가 있었네. 물소는 아메리카가 원산지 아님? 허. 쌀은 차이나의 주식. 그래서 이사벨라 비숍의 19세기 차이나 기행문에 보면 만나는 사람마다 밥 (rice)먹었느냐가 인사였다고함.

[@dimidas2580]

0:56

[@elsonalbao4824]

It says the video is 1930 but its intro speaks about second world war

[@PeriscopeFilm]

This film was shot prior to WWII and released during or after the war.

[@spessato]

Viva as 3 chinas 🇹🇼🇲🇴🇭🇰

[@beowulf1312]

I doubt the Emperor ever went to Macau, let alone signed a treaty with the USA there and with other countries. That's fantasy.

[@dimidas2580]

0:55