"Cat Street." 



From Phil Walker's 



"Hong Kong — 



Bamboo Curtain Colony." 



Travel 



Around 



the 



World 



with the 



Museum's 



Adult Lecture Series 



When Phileas Fogg traveled "Around 

 the World in Eighty Days" for the 

 first time, the nineteenth century imagi- 

 nation was captivated by the delightful 

 fictitious escapade invented by Jules 

 Verne. Learning about the far coun- 

 tries and exotic peoples of the world has 

 always excited man's interest. Today 

 people are realizing that it is more im- 

 portant than ever before to know as 

 much as possible about our neighbors 

 in a world community drawn together 

 by modern air and space communica- 

 tions. On hand to whisk Saturday after- 

 noon audiences off on a "56-day" film 

 trip around the world are several mod- 

 ern-day Phileas Foggs — well-known ad- 

 venturer-lecturers who have roamed the 

 globe with cameras at their sides. The 

 motion pictures they have taken — all in 

 color — will be narrated in person on the 

 stage of the James Simpson Theatre each 

 Saturday at 2:30 p.m., during the months 

 of October and November. Reserved 

 seats will be held for Museum Members 

 until 2:25 p.m. 



October 7 — Hong Kong — 

 Bamboo Curtain Colony 



Phil Walker 



Political bastion of the democracies of 

 the Far East, warehouse port of Asia, 

 gateway between East and West — this 

 is Hong Kong ! More than three million 

 Chinese are housed in the less than ten 

 square miles of this seaport and refugee 

 base on China's border. Phil Walker, 

 a former writer and producer for the 

 National Broadcasting Company, in his 

 second filming of this important citadel 

 of the West, focuses on those areas of the 

 Oriental city that stir the Occidental 

 imagination — Victoria City and Kow- 

 loon, the Red China border, Aberdeen 

 village and the floating restaurants, Re- 

 pulse Bay, Portuguese Macao, and the 

 ancient walled city of Kam Tin in the 

 New Territories. In his ability to "see" 

 the unusual in everyday human scenes, 

 Walker makes a sampan wedding feast, 

 squatters' villages, and a tour of Hong 

 Kong Island as exciting as the Commu- 

 nist guards and the flag of the Chinese 



People's Republic at the Bamboo Cur- 

 tain boundary. 



October 14 — Cyprus, 

 The New Republic 



Robert Davis 



Cyprus, with a history 5,000 years old, 

 has always been a meeting-place for 

 many races and nationalities. Though 

 for 82 years the island was controlled by 

 England, Cyprus nonetheless has re- 

 mained emotionally a part of Greece. 

 Now, as a republic, it cherishes its 

 legacy of Gothic cathedrals crowned by 

 Turkish minarets, Byzantine chapels, 

 and Roman palaces surrounded by Ve- 

 netian fortifications. Although great 

 strides are being made on the island in 

 the direction of modernizing agriculture 

 and industry, Davis's film shows that 

 the small farm owner can still be seen 

 using the picturesque, time-tested imple- 

 ments of his ancestors, and that in trav- 

 eling across the Messoria plain one can 

 yet hear the melancholy tune of the flute 

 played by a lonely shepherd. 

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