Shot by the Edison Company in 1898, The Edison Shorts contains six shorts that are indicated as the earliest moving images of Hong Kong. One of these is Street Scene in Hong Kong. The Paper Print Film Collection is stored at the Library of Congress in the US.
Charles Gilbert Collection: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing was shot by American Charles Gilbert in 1928 when he and his wife were on a world cruise, which he edited together with purchased film of China, probably bought on shipboard.
Hong Kong Sceneries was taken in the 1930s, the copy was hidden at the bottom of a well by father of our donor Dolores Wang, so that it could escape from the fate of being burned by the Japanese military.
Hong Kong: Gateway to China (1938) is currently kept at the Library of Congress in the US, it is a short film introducing Hong Kong's tourist attractions.
