Thailand Pre-Tourism Boom, 1960s - Film 1007753

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1007753 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ A glossy and commercial look at Thailand before it became a popular tourist destination, 1960's Blue sky and kite flying. Credits appear over an illustrated picture of a pagoda. Oriental-style music. Credits end. Focus on Bangkok Airport building. Pan Am aeroplane arrives. Passengers disembark - mostly Thai in appearance. City street - broad and modern. Cars of all types drive past. Narrator - Bangkok is a modern metropolis with 1 and a half million inhabitants. Cut to a narrower street. Cars are more congested and there are also cyclists and tuk-tuk drivers. Busy street. Many Thai people walk by, some carrying large bags on their heads or across their shoulders. Narrator - Thailand literally means 'Land of the free'. Cut to a canal (Klong). Rowing boats with merchandise (vegetables mostly) at the rear of the frame. Motorised boat carrying occidental tourists (sorry, couldn't resist). Narrator - 80 percent of the internal traffic travels by water. Cut among various boats containing western tourists. All have cameras. Small Thai boy in another boat waves at the camera. Bungalows on stilts built into the river. Many different house fronts, small boats moored outside and verandas. People on veranda platforms. Boats go past. Cut to a family bathing outside their bungalow. The father waves. Cut to a larger stretch of the river. A paddle boat makes its way down, its cargo is brightly coloured - possibly flowers. Tourist boat. Thai woman unloads her boat onto her house front. A man and child bathe at the front of their bungalow. A child plays in the water. A man loads his boat. On the veranda, two children wave at the camera. Floating market. Many paddle boats are gathered, mostly laden with fish or vegetables. Shoppers, some with empty boats, draw up around them. Many shots of the different wares and the ve