1909 - 1915 - Double Chinese Sabre - Street Performance -China (HD)

Film Date: 1909-1915 This small piece of footage is part of a larger collection of films shot in China by Benjamin Brodsky. Brodsky moved to China from San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and set up shop as a film exhibitor. In 1909, he branched into film production in Shanghai and Hong Kong. During this period while juggling his business interests, he filmed his travels. In 1915 Brodsky returned to San Francisco bringing with him 20,000 feet of film. From this footage came his 1915 film “A Trip Through China”. Versions of the film screened locally, and in Los Angeles the following year. When distribution went national in March 1917, the ten reels of film which made up the film were heralded as a “revelation.” As a “comprehensive” portrait of “every conceivable feature of Chinese life—her customs, fashions, and beliefs. No complete copy of the film survives today in the United States, but an 18- minute fragment was found in New Zealand. This fragment film from the New Zealand archives is tinted