This is a 1960’s era, color movie photographed and narrated by John L Strohm (1927-1987) author/editor and world traveler. It is called, Southeast Asia. The movie opens with video footage of a John Strohm discussing his world travels. Globe spins showing Strohm’s last stop in Southeast Asia, 1:00. World map displays southeast Asia, 1:14. Cows and a watermill are shown in India, 2:41. Man plants seeds, 2:55. Oxen plowing a field, 3:03. Grain is harvested in the village, 3:26. Woman uses a pistle to grind grain, 4:15. Schoolteacher is shown at the blackboard in front of students, 4:32. Village in Pakistan is shown, 4:50. Camel is seen connected to a machine grinding oil seeds, 5:17. Ox pulls water wheel for irrigation, 5:32. River in Siam is shown with flatboats, 6:01. Palaces in Bangkok, 6:36. Golden urn containing the King of Siam’s ashes, 6:56. Siamese boxing match, 7:12. Farmers plant rice in rice paddy hats in Java, 7:50. Women pick tea leaves in Java, 8:05. Open canals and women swimming in Jakarta, 8:44. Farmers harvest and thrash rice by foot in Silan, off the southern tip of India, 9:43. Man makes Silanes rubber, 10:06. Boy mounts elephant, 10:20. Rubber tree in Malaya, 10:50. Women carry buckets full of rubber from the rubber tree plant, 11:26. Stripping and trimming rubber tree bark, 12:11. Malayan children signing, 13:39. Malayan children play and do calisthenics, 13:57. Diverse students shown at Malayan University, 14:21. Malayan legislative leader, 14:35. Singapore Harbor, 14:49. Hindu temple shown in Singapore, 15:13. John Strohm closes the program behind his desk, 16:00.

We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 — President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.”

This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com