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The Daum clip shows (at 0:54) a lady who appears to be a Salvation Army member playing a concertina. If so, it must postdate the Army's arrival in Korea in 1908.<BR>
<A href="http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2008/11/23/salvation-army-in-korea/">http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2008/11/23/salvation-army-in-korea/</A><BR>
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<DIV id=SkyDrivePlaceholder></DIV>> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:04:48 -0800<BR>> To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR>> From: hoffmann@koreaweb.ws<BR>> Subject: Re: [KS] Travelogue: Book on Seoul and First Movie ever Filmed and Played in Korea by E. Burton Holmes, 1901<BR>> <BR>> Thanks to Kwang-On Yoo for putting our attention <BR>> on this -- especially this early movie.<BR>> <BR>> E. Burton Holmes (1870-1958) seems to be the <BR>> inventor of the term "travelogue"--at least did <BR>> he fill that term with some content in modern <BR>> times. From 1902/03 onwards, AFTER returning from <BR>> his Russia/China/Korea tour, he used a small 35 <BR>> mm Warwick Bioscope camera (see here for photos <BR>> and illustrations of that and earlier cameras: <BR>> http://wiki.phalkefactory.net/index.php?title=Camera) <BR>> as did most early filmmakers, because of its <BR>> convenient size. As the older ones among you are <BR>> aware the 35 mm film became the standard for <BR>> several decades. The earlier films he did with <BR>> Oscar Depue, e.g. the famous, very early Hopi <BR>> snake-dance documentary at Oraibi from 1898 or <BR>> 1899 (if you ever visited an exhibition about <BR>> Navajo or Hopi Indians' culture you will have <BR>> likely seen that film there)--well, those very <BR>> early movies were done with one of Léon Gaumont's <BR>> cameras. In 1897 Holmes had sent Oscar Depue to <BR>> France to buy such a camera. This was a very <BR>> bulky camera (see above link) that used 60 mm <BR>> wide film.<BR>> <BR>> The short movie that Kwang-On Yoo pointed to <BR>> seems actually a segment from the 1922 <BR>> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release "The Burton Holmes <BR>> Story":<BR>> http://emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/archive_image.php?id=16444484<BR>> According to the description there should be a <BR>> longer sequence in that movie showing scenes from <BR>> Inch'ôn Bay (but that short posted clip does not <BR>> have that). Anyway, what is noteworthy is that <BR>> (a) all 1901 material was re-mastered on 35 mm <BR>> film, and (b) some sequences may not be from 1901 <BR>> but from 1912, when Holmes was again in Korea. <BR>> The court dancers are indeed from 1901, but not <BR>> sure about the remaining scenes.<BR>> <BR>> The main point, however, is that there must <BR>> be--very likely--much more material from 1901 and <BR>> 1912. Please remember that the just mentioned <BR>> 1922 MGM movie was just taking some short scenes <BR>> from some of Holmes movies ... and Holmes, by <BR>> 1922, had already done travel film for 25 years <BR>> at that time, every summer a new destination. In <BR>> 2003 tons of film rolls by Holmes were <BR>> rediscovered in a sealed-up storage room across <BR>> the street from Holmes former enterprise. See <BR>> here: <BR>> http://burtonholmes.org/rediscovery/photos.html<BR>> These are now all at the George Eastman House <BR>> (Eastman Kodak) in Rochester <BR>> (http://eastmanhouse.org). Maybe someone into <BR>> film history (or into studying that early 1900s <BR>> period) might want to dive deeper into this and <BR>> find out if there is more material on Korea that <BR>> survived? If you carefully compare the dance <BR>> scene in the online movie Kwang-On Yoo pointed us <BR>> to ...<BR>> http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=2614233<BR>> (at minute 2:05 to 2:39)<BR>> with the small intro clip on the Holmes collection at the museum ...<BR>> http://podcast.eastmanhouse.org/preserving-the-world-of-burton-holmes/<BR>> (at minutes 5:45 to 6:08)<BR>> ... you will see that there must be more: e.g., <BR>> the the scene with the male dancer is not fully <BR>> part of that other clip, and in that clip (at the <BR>> Daum site) top and bottom were obviously also cut.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Best,<BR>> Frank<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> --------------------------------------<BR>> Frank Hoffmann<BR>> http://koreaweb.ws<BR>> <BR></DIV> </div></body>
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