Film Record: Hong Kong

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

Jack Babkes

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:12:30

Length:

510 ft

Format:

16mm

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1969, PSA MPD Travel Film Award sponsored by Esther Cooke 1969

Description:

"Hong Kong. There have been films and films about Hong Kong, but this one tops them all. Jack Babkes of Brooklyn takes you on a 12.5 minute tour of one of the most interesting spots in the world. Naturally it's in entertaining color, very entertaining otherwise, too. You'll feel that "you-have-been-there" " PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 57.

Resources:

PSA Journal, Nov. 1969, 53, 54.

Included in the 1970 Canadian International Amateur Film Festival.

Locations:

• Hong Kong (Filming)

Subjects:

• Asia
•      China
•      Geography

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• May 1970 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts: Toronto, ON

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