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MacMurray’s films of China, 1925–1929
American diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881–1960) began filming in 1925, two years after Kodak introduced the Cine-Kodak Motion Picture camera, which made production and display of motion...
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Trip to attend the reinterment of Sun Yat-sen, 1929
(This is our second post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) Foreign representatives accompanying the bier. Detail from a 9 feet long print...
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A diplomat’s trip along the Yangtze River, 1928
(This is our third post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) On February 24, 1928, MacMuray, his Chinese secretary, and a naval attaché...
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Renting a temple in the Western Hills
(This is our fourth post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) Detail of MacMurray’s German map of the Peking surroundings. The Pa Ta Ch’u...
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Marines and Chinese armies in Peking
(This is our fifth post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) When watching MacMurray’s peaceful films of China, it is easy to forget that the...
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Trips to the South and the Philippines, 1926 and 1929
(This is our sixth post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) Photo of Igonot carriers, taken by MacMurray on the trail between Baguio and...
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Vacation with the Navy, friends with the Marines
(This is our seventh post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) MacMurray and his wife and two oldest children at a military review in...
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Peking friends and family scenes
(This is our eighth post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) Although most films that have previously been discussed are interspersed with...
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Escape to the Diamond Mountains in Korea, 1928
(This is our ninth and final post about the films of diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray. See the first post for more background.) “A typical group of Korean women gossiping on the road near Onseiri.”...
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