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Hong Kong

in pictures and video clips
1953 - 55

Foto: Scene from Sunrise

Title of my film on life in the Yaumati typhoon shelter (1953)
Turn of the Tide


Scene in Yaumati Typhoon shelter

Clip: End of film 'Turn of the Tide'


Scenes uit Turn of the tide

Gospelboat
Chinese New Year


De hoofdpersonen
Wing Gay collapses


Foto: First prize for 'Turn of the Tide'
HKACC award

Foto: Wedding of Cor and Peggy Steenken in Union Church, HK, August '54
Bruiloft Steenkens


South China Morning Post, 8 October 1954
South China Morning Post

Video clip: Jaycees arrange party for poor children in Hong Kong


Visiting the Indonesian consul Iskandar Ishaq Iskandar Ishak villa

Farewell dinner of bank staff for Rogge on his departure in 1955


Return on leave to Europa

BANGKOK

Bangkok
Bangkok

Bangkok
Bangkok



INDONESIA

Pak Subuh in front of his house in Djakarta
Pak Subuh voor zijn villa in Djakarta

Pak Ahmad, manager of People's Credit Bank, Cakarta


Pak Subuh with family in Puncak mountains

Open air laundry at Molenvliet canal in Cakarta
Molenvliet, Djakarta


Bali beach. The island of Lombok in the distance.
Strand Bali

Practice of court dance at Bali.
Dans op Bali


President Sukarno arrives for Ramadan gathering in Djakarta, May 1955
Mountain resort, Puncak, Java


EGYPTE

Cairo
Cairo

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Pyramide


Street life in Caïro
Cairo

Temple at Baalbek, Lebanon
Baalbek



GREECE

Change of the guards, Athens
Palace guard, Athene


The Acropolis, Athens
Acropolis

The Acropolis, Athens

Change of the palace guards in Athens



NETHERLANDS

Reguliersbreestraat, Amsterdam

Broodje van Kootje, Rembrandtplein
Broodje van Kootje


Traveling by Citroën Traction with mother and brother through Europe.
Sonsbeek

Austria on our way to Italy
Oostenrijk


ITALY

Florence

Tower of Pisa


The Forum Romanum in Rome
Forum Romanum

Sculptures in Rome
Beelden te Rome


Neptune
Neptunus



Great Britain

Transport of car across the Channel
Oostende

My brother paints Scottish landscape


The harbour of Oban in the far North of Scotland

Trafalgar and Leicester squares, Londen.


Trafalgar square, Londen

Petrouchka at the Royal Festival Hall



PARIS and DEPARTURE FOR JAPAN

Montmartre, Paris

Departure for Japan at Schiphol



See further:

Links:

Recommended reading:

  • Booth, Martin: Gweilo. Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (2005)


  • Of my films taken in Hong Kong a few DVD's are available ! Click here for a list.

    On the web since 13 December 2006. Revised 17 March 2010.

    © Michael Rogge 2009


    Recapitulation of previous pages with photos and clips


    The above photos also appear in my autobiography in Dutch: