Beacon of the East - Macao (1950s)

A visit to Macau in the early 1950s. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com 1950s, post-WWII, Macau, traditional Chinese culture, cityscape, skyline, Guia Hill, Guia Lighthouse, Sikh policemen, Senado Square, Senate Square, Ruins of Saint Paul’s, Barrier Gate Road, Chinese farmers using carrying poles and riding bicycles to haul produce and wares to market, men using watering cans on carrying poles to water garden, carabao plowing rice fields and paddies, Macau street scenes, pedestrians, rickshaws, street food, sidewalk soup restaurants, tea and rice stands, street peddler selling rabbits and cats, religious procession, Buddhist, dragon dance, Chinese funeral procession, A-Ma Temple, moon gate, shrine, Lotus Temple, Chinese women in Lou Lim Ieoc Garden, lotus pond, firecracker manufacturing, women filling empty firecrackers with fuses and powder, fishing industry, fishing junks headed out to sea