This 1950s color film is apparently a well shot, amateur home movie. It depicts a trip to Indonesia, featuring historic architecture and ancient temples of Bali and surrounding areas in stunning Kodachrome vibrancy. The film culminates in an extended performance featuring a gamelan, Topeng dance, and a drama with masked deities (24:14).

Crowded streets filled with bicycles and cycle rickshaws. Pedestrians in a crosswalk (0:08). Urban storefronts advertise their wares with colorful signage. A large banner indicates Batik dyed fabrics (0:24). Gaily decorated bicycle rickshaws carry painted stars, flowers, feather dusters, and initials. A rickshaw driver speeds by, making sharp turns while balancing on one wheel (0:32). A large white mosque with a silver dome. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground (0:58). Finely decorated silver plates on display in an exhibit. A hand-carved landscape on a wooden box. Another box depicts two legendary, bird-like, Garuda figures (1:21). Batik dyed fabric patterns (1:48). A woman walking away, wearing batik-patterned clothing (2:12). The model again in a medium shot, filmed from toe to head. A closeup on her hairstyle reveals a decorative hairpin and a netted bun, earrings. She turns and smiles into the sun, showing a choker necklace with a precious stone (2:21). POV from a car ride surrounded by traffic. Palm trees overhead (2:54). A young man and an elderly woman chop coconuts with knives around a woven basket (3:06). Oxcarts carry large loads on carts with big wooden wheels (3:15). A woman and children sit on a park bench outside a large stone temple (3:40). The Borobudur 9th century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, Central Java in closeup. Stupas in the Javanese Buddhist style (3:52). The Stair of Brobudur through the arches of Kala, framing a stupa (4:21). Sunlit stone reliefs. One depicts a male figure being carried on a litter. Another shows female figures (4:35). A large stone Buddha. More views of the stupas at Borobudur (4:47). A wide shot shows the scale of the ancient temple (5:03). Tropical farmlands lined with palm trees. Irrigated rice fields and rocky outcroppings. Gunung Kawi, an 11th century temple and funerary complex in Tampaksiring, northease of Ubud. 10 rock-cut candi (shrines) are carved into a rocky cliff face surrounded by vegetation (5:22). Wild, crab-eating, long-tailed macaque monkeys are coaxed and fed near moss-covered temples, possibly at Mandala Suci Wenara Wana, aka the Ubud Monkey Forest (5:39). Vendors at a bustling outdoor market sell rice wrapped in banana leafs (7:09). A woman spreads out and folds a gold and green batik patterned fabric. A dazzling array of printed and embroidered textiles are piled around her (7:34). Pedestrians walk through Candi bentar split temple gates. A car is visible (8:07). POV a car ride. A carved lion sculpture and a wood carver at work. A sculptor carving a deity out of stone. A finished pair of statues depicting Balinese deities. The car ride continues (9:19). A wood carved mask. More traditional wood carvers and their finished works depicting Balinese deities and figures, including Lebuswana and a bathing nude (9:40). Further down the road, women carry baskets atop their heads. (10:48). A river and a road leading up to a temple (11:30). Two large Balinese temple structures. The first, Candi bentar split temple gates and a paduraksa with a Bhoma. Inside, a closeup reveals a statue of the deity Garuda (11:47). A gamelan performance (12:33). An offering is made at an altar. A crowd of spectators (13:01). A traditional dramatic dance in the masked “Topeng” style (13:21). A two-person costume of Barong, a mythical lion-like creature joins the performance (16:03). The long-tongued deity Leyak appears (17:35). Barong’s nemesis Rangda, the queen of Leyak (18:13). A group of crouching men wait, then spring into action, attacking Rangda in a mock battle (19:24). Cut to Rangda, victorious. The fallen men rise. Blessings are administered (21:43). Barong parades away (23:40).

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