Beacon of the East - Macao (1950s)

A visit to Macau in the early 1950s. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1950s, post-WWII, Macau, traditional Chinese culture, cityscape, skyline, Guia Hill, Guia Lighthouse, Sikh policemen, Senado Square, Senate Square, Ruins of Saint Paul’s, Barrier Gate Road, Chinese farmers using carrying poles and riding bicycles to haul produce and wares to market, men using watering cans on carrying poles to water garden, carabao plowing rice fields and paddies, Macau street scenes, pedestrians, rickshaws, street food, sidewalk soup restaurants, tea and rice stands, street peddler selling rabbits and cats, religious procession, Buddhist, dragon dance, Chinese funeral procession, A-Ma Temple, moon gate, shrine, Lotus Temple, Chinese women in Lou Lim Ieoc Garden, lotus pond, firecracker manufacturing, women filling empty firecrackers with fuses and powder, fishing industry, fishing junks headed out to sea

[@MilesBellas]

"Following the 1974 Carnation Revolution, Portugal formally relinquished Macau as an overseas province and acknowledged it as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration".
After China first concluded arrangements on Hong Kong's future with the United Kingdom, it entered negotiations with Portugal over Macau in 1986. They were concluded with the signing of the 1987 Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, in which Portugal agreed to transfer the colony in 1999 and China would guarantee Macau's political and economic systems for 50 years after the transfer.
In the waning years of colonial rule, Macau rapidly urbanized and constructed large-scale infrastructure projects, including the Macau International Airport and a new container port.
Macau was transferred to China on 20 December 1999, after 442 years of Portuguese rule""

[@MrSomebodyyy]

I loved this channel. What happened?

[@cleanandgreenpakistan3837]

Nice ❤

[@krestonosets68]

Lotus pond with Chinese girls is Lou Lim Yeoc garden. Thank you for sharing. Macau is all about gambling and gangsters now.

[@DJ-io5px]

Parou?

[@dimidas2580]

0:46

[@MrSam-mg5ut]

1:27 A sikh Police man

[@LesterMoore]

I understand during WWII Macau was a land of intrigue, spys and quick violent death. Such a place.