"Trip to Miao Feng Shan etc.," October 1928

This film is part of a collection of motion picture films that John Van Antwerp MacMurray shot during the time he served as American Minister to China (1925-1929).

The film, labeled by MacMurray himself, possibly captures a five day family trip with the artist Lilian ("Jack") Miller. MacMurray mentions the trip in the Western Hills, with destinations Lung Ch'uan Ssu, Miao Feng Shan, Ti Shui Yen, and T'an Che Ssu in a letter to his mother. The film includes views of the Summer Palace northwest of Beijing, but the rural and temple scenes following are not identified. The last part of this film seems to have been shot while climbing Miao Feng Shan ("Marvelous Peak Mountain"), a popular pilgrimage site about 30 miles northwest of Peking.

For the John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library see http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/wh246s13m . For more information or to comment on this video, visit the library's blog "The Reel Mudd:" http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/2010/08/renting-a-temple-in-the-western-h...

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