When the World was Wide (1978)

Directed by

Perry Miller Adato

Genre

documentary film

How it feels

This documentary shows early travel films from the early 1900s. It includes some of the very first footage captured in places like Japan, Tibet, and China.

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What happens

When the World was Wide is a 1978 American documentary film that presents pioneering travelogue footage of exotic and far-flung locales taken between 1905 and 1927. It samples archival footage reaching back to "the last days of the Manchu Dynasty" in China and includes the first footage taken in Japan (1909) and Tibet (1919) and the first ever of a Dalai Lama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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