Home Life in Japan
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by [?] Bertram Bracken?
Cast: (unknown)
Méliès Star Films [American] production; distributed by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America through The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 18 September 1913; in a split-reel with Japanese Funeral (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Japan.
[?] Documentary?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Interesting and intimate scenes in the homes of Japanese, showing the wash; ironing silk by a peculiar but characteristic method; a Japanese kitchen, the preparing of a meal and the eating of it in typical Japanese fashion; and the tea ceremony, renowned throughout the world as a custom which shows up a Japanese’s good or bad breeding, for its rules are laid down by strict etiquette. Every Japanese girl of rank or breeding is well trained in this ceremony,
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Japan
Listing updated: 6 January 2025.
References: Thompson-Star p. 235 : Website-IMDb.
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