 From 1914 through much of the 1920s, Albert Kahn’s photographic team was hard at work in Asia, amassing culturally and historically vital images for the Archive of the Planet. This program recounts journeys through Indochina and greater Asia in which the Kahn team opened up a world most Europeans had never dreamed of. Viewers discover Vietnam through its beggars, Tet celebrants, and elegantly dressed Mandarin administrators; Cambodia, through traditional dancers and the imposing Angkor City complex; Japan, through rapidly Westernizing homes, dress, and hairstyles; and India, through pictures of maharajas and other authorities rendered powerless by British rule. Contains brief nudity. A BBC/Musée Albert-Kahn (Département des Hauts-de-Seine—France) Co-production. (51 minutes)
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