Fête des eaux sur le Mékong [Water Festival on the Mekong River] (1910) – Anon

Dragon-boat racing in Phnom Penh – ‘Water Festival on the Mekong river’ (1910) – Anon

10 mins., b&w, silent

Production : Pathé, catalogue no. 3779

Source : CNC at the Bnf

This film was not reviewed for The Silent Time Machine, but it has recently been restored by the CNC and would appear to be of ethnographic interest

According to the CNC catalogue, the film consists of a series of views of large dragon-boat races on the Mekong river.

The catalogue does not specify a location but in À travers la Cochinchine et le Cambodge (1925), what is apparently the same event is shown taking place in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.

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